The fifth edition of Red Sea Film Festival will open on Dec. 4 with Rowan Athale’s “Giant,” which tells the story of ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film ...

Netflix’s first ever Arabic film, a remake of the Italian hit “Perfect Strangers,” has quickly hit No. 1 in several countries across the Middle East and won critical acclaim, but it’s also been the ...

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He is "the most fascinating director to emerge from Egypt's ever-fertile film culture in the last quarter century," says IFFR festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.

Egypt's best foreign-language film submission caused the director to come under fire from all sides in a country where two recent revolutions and the dramatic rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s absurdist social satire “Feathers,” in which the good-for-nothing husband of a woman with three children is turned into a chicken, is the big winner of the sixth ...

El Gouna Film Festival, one of the Middle East’s leading cinema events, is paying tribute to one of Egypt’s most iconic stars ...

Egypt’s Film Clinic, the prominent indie shingle headed by Cairo Film Festival president Mohammed Hefzy, has scored the rare distinction of being the Middle East and North Africa region distributor of ...

In the three decades between Israel’s founding and the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, the relationship between the two neighbors was tense. And yet, Israelis eagerly turned on their TVs every Friday ...

CAIRO — A Lebanese father tells his teenage daughter she is free to choose whether to have sex with her boyfriend despite his reservations. An Egyptian wife discreetly slips off her black, lacy ...