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From Backstage to Bye Bye Tiberias: The Middle Eastern films to look out for this autumn

Our critic's selection includes a Tunisian father-son drama, a documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass by her daughter, and a Turkish legal drama

Venice film festival: Daring political films show what Middle East cinema is lacking

Electronic Jaglara: The ‘cosmic’ dance music rocking rural Sudan

The Arab world and Barbie: Why Greta Gerwig's film has provoked anger in the Middle East

The bimaristan: How early Islamic hospitals pioneered treatments like eye surgery and music therapy

Art and photography

Picasso and the Middle East: How Arab art embraced Cubism

Between modernity and tradition: Why Turkey appeals to western Muslims and students of Islam

The Book of Delights: A medieval text that helped give rise to Indo-Pakistani cuisine

In pictures: Inside Gaza's traditional pottery industry

Why love always hurts in udhri poetry

In pictures: Shia Muslims take part in Muharram gatherings in run up to Ashura

Paradise lost: Why the ideal of Al-Andalus found a place in Arab poetry

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Memories of a Massacre: Revisiting Rabaa and the end of the Egyptian revolution

Rumi: Why show about the Sufi mystic could be Turkish television's next Ertugrul

The Soil and the Sea: Excavating Lebanon's history of violence

The symbol as resistance: Sliman Mansour on occupation and Palestinian identity

In pictures: The Egyptian who finds solace in the art of Arabic calligraphy

Turkey: Archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old Byzantine statues in heart of Istanbul

Good for Nothing: British Muslim author Mariam Ansar on skewing stereotypes

Palestine state

From Nablus to Naples: How murals in Italy tell the story of Palestinian resistance