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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona
ByLeslie Felperin August 20, 2025

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows Hassona through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bearThe rule is this: don’t spoil movies by giving away the ending, even if the events depicted are part of th…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system – documentary
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system – documentary
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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My Worst Enemy review – Iranian exile recreates torture and interrogation in study of regime power
ByPhuong Le July 28, 2025

Mehran Tamadon’s film about autocracy in Iran could have revealed more about methods of control, despite a star turn from Zar Amir EbrahimiFilm-maker Mehran Tamadon is preoccupied with the question of conscience, especially in contexts of extreme power…

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My Worst Enemy review – Iranian exile recreates torture and interrogation in study of regime power
ByPhuong Le July 28, 2025

Mehran Tamadon’s film about autocracy in Iran could have revealed more about methods of control, despite a star turn from Zar Amir EbrahimiFilm-maker Mehran Tamadon is preoccupied with the question of conscience, especially in contexts of extreme power…

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Gaza’s healthcare system is being destroyed by targeted attacks | Letters
ByGuardian staff July 8, 2025

Israeli medics Dr Michal Feldon and Dr Tslil Regev Paska on the killing of Dr Marwan al-Sultan and the systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medical infrastructure. Plus letters from Oisin Large and Christopher Foren on the BBC’s failures over…

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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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