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Discover dives into travel, culture, food & arts of the Middle East and North Africa, giving you an authentic insight into the life and history of the region

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Making a Killing traces the blood that flows from the ruins of Gaza and Yemen into backroom meetings with politicians and arms manufacturing CEOs, exposing the corruption at the heart of the military-industrial complex 📚 Book review by Fleur Hargreaves middleeasteye.net/discover/m…
Making a Killing: Who profits from slaughter in Gaza and Yemen?

Making a Killing: Who profits from slaughter in Gaza and Yemen?

New book by Andrew Feinstein traces $50bn in profit from the genocide in Gaza

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🎬 Season 5 of Fauda constructs a world in which Hamas seems to be everywhere, Europe has been compromised by Muslims and Israelis are perennially under siege. Read MEE's full review ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/discover/h…
How Fauda season five rewrites the Gaza genocide

How Fauda season five rewrites the Gaza genocide

The Netflix series demonises French Muslims, ignores Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and erases Palestinian suffering

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🧵Switzerland’s Locarno has been among the most hospitable fairs to the Palestinian cause and to Middle Eastern voices. In the 79th iteration of the iconic festival, Palestine, Iran and Israel’s genocide in Gaza continued to dominate debate, writes Joseph Fahim ⤵️
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Concrete Land is an important document of a people and a place on the brink of extinction. But like Revolutionaries Never Die, it is another case of a film whose valuable subject matter is undermined by a humdrum cinematic framework” ✍️ Joseph Fahim
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Locarno Film Festival 2026: Palestine, Iran and Gaza's genocide continue to dominate debate

Locarno Film Festival 2026: Palestine, Iran and Gaza's genocide continue to dominate debate

The 79th iteration of the iconic festival took place in Switzerland between 5 and 15 August

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“It’s essential that we tell our own stories, especially when so much of our history and our experiences are spoken about by others or erased" How a collaborative exhibition by artists is preserving the stories of southern Lebanon ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/discover/a…
Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon’s stories

Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon’s stories

Beit Beirut holds an exhibition where villages are remembered through photography, film and personal archives

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Asad versus 7 Dogs: Two starkly different movies compete to be the summer Arab blockbuster middleeasteye.net/discover/s…
Asad versus 7 Dogs: Two starkly different movies compete to be the summer Arab blockbuster

Asad versus 7 Dogs: Two starkly different movies compete to be the summer Arab blockbuster

A historical epic takes on a Bad Boys style action romp in what our critic describes as the Barbenheimer of Arab cinema

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🧵 How Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, one of Islam’s most revered figures, still speaks to the modern world ⤵️
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But today the Israeli occupation makes it hard enough for many Muslims even to enter Al-Aqsa, let alone pray at this sacred site
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: How one of Islam’s most revered figures still speaks to the modern world

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: How one of Islam’s most revered figures still speaks to the modern world

The sanctity and security of Al-Aqsa is once again under threat, as it was during the lifetime of the great scholar

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