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Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice
ByCath Clarke July 15, 2025

An Austrian trainer goes to Dubai to work with three teenage sisters, and realises they are trapped. But there is no hero-saviour narrative in Kurdwin Ayub’s filmThis claustrophobic drama-thriller sticks two fingers up at white saviour narratives with …

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Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice
ByCath Clarke July 15, 2025

An Austrian trainer goes to Dubai to work with three teenage sisters, and realises they are trapped. But there is no hero-saviour narrative in Kurdwin Ayub’s filmThis claustrophobic drama-thriller sticks two fingers up at white saviour narratives with …

Read More Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice
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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice
ByNadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent July 12, 2025

Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for PalestineRead any celebrity-signed open letter advocating for social justice over the past few years and you’ll probably spot Juliet Stevenson’s name….

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Antisemitism | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Benjamin Netanyahu | Culture | Donald Trump | Film | Gaza | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Juliet Stevenson | Middle East and north Africa | Nuclear weapons | Palestinian territories | Petrol prices | Stage | Theatre

Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice
ByNadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent July 12, 2025

Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for PalestineRead any celebrity-signed open letter advocating for social justice over the past few years and you’ll probably spot Juliet Stevenson’s name….

Read More Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice
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Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

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Africa | Awards and prizes | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Benjamin Netanyahu | Books | Culture | Donald Trump | Fiction | Gaza | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Islam | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and north Africa | Nuclear weapons | Palestinian territories | PEN literary prizes | Petrol prices | Religion | Sudan

Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

Read More Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
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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…

Read More Madina: The Enlightened City review – a fact-filled tour of Islam’s second holiest city
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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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