The last sovereign of the land of the pharaohs has just celebrated his 74th birthday in Switzerland. Meanwhile, his eldest ...

Abdel Sayed's 1991 classic Kit Kat, about an unruly blind man from the working-class Cairo neighbourhood, is one of Egypt's ...

The Iran of the mullahs transfers its capital abroad, sanctuarizes its security apparatus, fires on its own population while accusing it of terrorism, and constantly seeks substitute figures for the ...

Typically novelists who decide to write their memoirs don't opt to dictate them. This unusual approach is the one taken by Bahaa Taher with his latest book, titled Biography in Exile. This offering ...

“Every single man I did get to know filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand.” ...

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s romantic comedy “No Good Men” has been set as this year’s Berlin Film Festival opener. The German-backed film, set inside a Kabul newsroom during the democratic era ...

No Good Men, the latest feature from Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, will open the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. The film follows Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul TV, who is convinced that there ...

The 2026 Berlin Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s No Good Men. The film will play as a Berlinale Special Gala, opening the festival at the Berlinale Palast on ...

In the spacious Celebration Hall of Cairo University last week 500 delegates from more than 40 countries rallied under a huge banner showing two hands, one light and one dark, clasped around a torch ...

In the collective memory of nations and the chronicles of their history, there are names, years, and even entire centuries that endure, untouched by the passage of time or the tumult of events. Among ...

German club Mainz have lost a court appeal for wrongful dismissal by Dutch winger Anwar El Ghazi. The Bundesliga side terminated El Ghazi's contract in November 2023 following a series of social media ...