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Life Is Beautiful review – poignantly upbeat journal of a Gazan exile stranded in Norway
ByPeter Bradshaw July 1, 2025

Mohamed Jabaly was marooned at a Norwegian film festival in 2014 after Israel closed Gaza’s border, and this is the record of what came nextHere is a tale from pre-7 October Gaza, on whose optimist energy subsequent events now cast a gloomy shadow. Alm…

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Madina: The Enlightened City review – a fact-filled tour of Islam’s second holiest city
ByCath Clarke June 30, 2025

Despite the dryly informational tone, this documentary guide to the prophet Muhammad’s final resting place features breathtaking footageHere is a tour guide of the Islamic holy city best known in the UK as Medina in Saudi Arabia, a major destination fo…

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Madina: The Enlightened City review – a fact-filled tour of Islam’s second holiest city
ByCath Clarke June 30, 2025

Despite the dryly informational tone, this documentary guide to the prophet Muhammad’s final resting place features breathtaking footageHere is a tour guide of the Islamic holy city best known in the UK as Medina in Saudi Arabia, a major destination fo…

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Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising
ByPeter Bradshaw June 24, 2025

Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-BashirFranco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 20…

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Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising
ByPeter Bradshaw June 24, 2025

Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-BashirFranco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 20…

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Simon Majaro obituary
ByBen Pilgrim June 23, 2025

My grandfather, Simon Majaro, who has died aged 95, led a life rich in reinvention. A marketing professor at Cranfield University, he was also a management consultant, author, translator, luthier and patron of chamber music. From consulting to craftsma…

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BBC drops Gaza medics documentary over impartiality concerns
ByMichael Savage Media editor June 20, 2025

Corporation says talks over how to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack have ‘reached the end of the road’The BBC has scrapped plans to show a documentary about medics in Gaza after concluding it “risked creating a perception of partiality” over the co…

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The Phoenician Scheme is fantasy. It is also a remarkable engagement with the real-life conflict in the Middle East
ByTanjil Rashid June 17, 2025

Sharp edges of bitter history keep jutting through Wes Anderson’s whimsical intrigues that turn international tragedy into light comedyThe Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s makebelieve treatment of the war-ravaged near east, reimagines the region as a …

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