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📚Book review | The Most American King: Jordan’s Abdullah II and the craft of survival

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Films play second fiddle to Gaza controversies for the third year running at the Berlinale. German politicians and journalists reacted angrily to repeated statements of Palestinian solidarity by Arab and Hollywood filmmakers

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Why a group of digital linguists are trying to revive the long-extinct Phoenician language

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“The Egyptian reaction toward El Sett is reflective of a nation with no confidence in a regime whose calamitous economic policies have led to an overreliance on generous donors like Saudi Arabia for a lifeline,” concludes Fahim

🧵 With a price tag of $8m excluding marketing, and a star-studded cast El Sett (The Woman, one of the many titles given to Umm Kulthum) was expected to smash box-office records - but it didn't. 🎬 Film reviewer Joseph Fahim examines why ⤵️

Emerging in the late Ottoman era, Jewish scholars studied a vast array of works by medieval Arab scholars to establish a body of work that became crucial to Zionist colonisation ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/discover/hebre…

P21 Gallery’s new film club kicked off on 27 January 🎬✨ It launched with a screening of Al-Nakba and a Q&A with filmmaker Rawan Damen. Plenty more Arab films to come, don’t miss the next one! ☕️🇵🇸🎥