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Andy Potts

Saudi entertainment: a soft but growing economic power

Strategic investments aim to stimulate the economy, attract tourists, and elevate culture and the arts in Saudi Arabia as part of the country's Vision 2030 goals

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 24 October 2025
Egyptian actress Magda Al-Sabahi is honoured at the Damascus International Film Festival in the Syrian capital on November 7, 2010. AFP

Magda El-Sabahi: The 'saint' of Egyptian cinema

The trailblazing Egyptian producer and actress with a tumultuous private life had become an icon when she died in 2020, not least for having stood against the nationalisation of cinema

Wael Tawfik 12 September 2024
American film director David Lynch, pictured in 2007 Thiago Piccolo/Wikipedia

David Lynch and his rich otherworldly legacy to world cinema

The master of the mysterious and the surreal plays with time, space, and our concepts of normality to create masterpieces with influences from German expressionism to Borges and Edgar Allan Poe

Mustafa Dhikri 15 August 2024
A logo of Sarajevo Film Festival is pictured at Open Air Cinema in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Sarajevo Film Festival Provides Platform for Ukrainian Filmmakers

The Sarajevo Film Festival, the largest film industry showcase in the region, is for the first time allowing Ukrainian movies in its competition and providing support to Ukrainian filmmakers. The…

12 August 2022
Scarlett Johansson stars in "Black Widow," a prequel exploring her origins. (Marvel Studios/TNS)

How the Streaming Wars are Changing What You Watch

Blockbusters are finally coming back to movie theaters. But the buzz is elsewhere in Hollywood. Streaming services are upending the film industry’s traditional model and consolidating power just as…

Peter Labuza 02 August 2021
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Ex-Prince Andrew's arrest rocks the British monarchy

20 February 2026

His arrest is the first for a British royal in modern history and comes after it was revealed he had passed confidential state documents to US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Con Coughlin
Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Finding an economic off-ramp to avert a US-Iran war

18 February 2026

Iran's vast oil and strategic mineral reserves have moved to the centre of negotiations with the US, which could reshape Trump's calculus

Thuraya Shahin
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SDF presence in Munich raises eyebrows in Ankara

18 February 2026

Despite having signed an agreement to integrate into the Syrian state, its leaders attended a key security conference in Germany as a separate delegation from Damascus, in a move that unnerves Türkiye

Omer Onhon
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
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The Kuwaiti collector preserving Fairuz's legacy

16 February 2026

Faris Al-Muhanna dreams of one day creating a digital archive to safeguard the history and memory of Lebanon's most iconic artist for future generations

Charbel Khoury
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India’s record defence budget turns heads

15 February 2026

A $86.7bn budget, rapid naval expansion, and longer-range missile development underline New Delhi's drive to modernise its forces and compete more assertively with China and Pakistan

Shakir Husain

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