Culture Categories Menu Show — Culture Categories Menu Hide — Culture Categories Menu Art Film, TV & Music History Cannes Film Festival Film, TV & Music Live Story Cannes Film Festival 2026 MENA lineup: Films of war and exile MENA cinema returns to Cannes Film Festival 2026 with powerful films from Iran, Palestine, Sudan and beyond, exploring war, exile and memory across the region Mariana Hristova 08 May, 2026 Uncovering Roots podcast: Israel's Paraguay Scheme exposed Dia al-Azzawi on his Excursion Across Time London exhibition Arab World Institute Paris traces 11 millennia of Byblos history Hamada ElKept brings Gaza's sleepless reality to the world Art Berlin exhibition exposes horrors of Syria's Sednaya prison Ramzi Mallat's Leighton House installation confronts Orientalism Dia al-Azzawi on his Excursion Across Time London exhibition Arab World Institute Paris traces 11 millennia of Byblos history More Art Film, TV & Music Cannes Film Festival 2026 MENA lineup: Films of war and exile Uncovering Roots podcast: Israel's Paraguay Scheme exposed Iphigenia: A brutal reckoning with war, power, and sacrifice Lee Cronin's The Mummy: A hollow take on Egyptian horror tropes More Film, TV & Music History Baghdad's 'Agatha Christie House' and Iraq's vanishing past Inside Gaza's race to save ancient manuscripts from Israel's war US‑Israel war on Iran threatens millennia of MENA civilisation Echoes of exile: The soul of Al-Andalus lives on in North Africa More History
