Review

An exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has yet to come to terms with its past

A review of Abdalhadi Alijla’s Fearful in Gaza, tracing how ordinary childhood memories under siege resist abstraction and restore Gaza as lived home rather than political symbol

From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of ‘good Italians.

Amid the cracked tiles of the German Foreigners’ Office, Aras feels the weight of a people caught up in a circle of revolutionary upheaval, their horrific suppression and a bureaucracy of exile.

Peter Wollen’s sci-fi parable of solidarity, screened at On Strike Berlin, speaks powerfully to today’s calls for boycott and the ethical urgency of bearing witness.

How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming grief into testimony, horror into a haunting presence.

Amr Gamal’s “The Burdened” is a story of sacrifice and survival that captures Yemen’s grim reality, where poverty often proves more lethal than the bullets of war.

Humaira Bilkis’ documentary exposes the neglected stories of Bangladesh's tea workers, whose colonial past and exclusion from recent revolutionary changes reveal deep, systemic inequalities.

As environmental crises deepen, Heather Alberro’s book serves as a crucial resource for understanding the strategies, struggles, and resilience of those fighting for a more just and sustainable world.

The son of a former Algerian diplomat reconciles with his heritage after working at a Muslim burial house.

Set in a sand-swept Gulf city, Yellow Bus follows an Indian mother’s relentless pursuit of justice against an oppressive neoliberal system. This debut film captivates with its emotional depth a woman's fight for accountability.

Urbanization in Palestine, much like in the US, still relies on patterns of dispossession and violence against indigenous communities, as it is argued in Hugill's book "Settler Colonial City."

Following the sudden death of her husband, a Jordanian woman finds herself confronting an oppressive male-world.

A stunning film that follows the journey of a middle-class Yemeni family as the everyday becomes progressively more difficult to manage.

Palestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in Germany

This 15th edition of the festival comes amid criticism aimed at German authorities and the Berlin Senate for silencing pro-Palestinian voices.

Aijaz Ahmad’s story may not be known to many outside a few selective international leftist circles, but it is one of exile, colonialism, and resistance that resonates in many parts of the Global South today.

The revival of Libyan literature in the past decade has been challenged by threats, harm, intimidation and censorship. Yet, in 2022, a Libyan novel won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

In her second feature-length documentary Lina Soualem takes the viewers on a transcendent historical journey, exploring her Palestinian family’s past, which was always a mystery to her.

In the service of struggles for the self-determination of peoples. Lebanese reporter Jocelyn Saab's images reflect her commitment.

Queerness, homoeroticism, femininity, sexualities between Arab women as reviewed in transnational Arab literature, art, and film, are addressed in Mejdulene Bernard Shomali's outstanding book.

Scenes of violence at the border are well known, from migrants beaten by Hungarian border guards at the border with Serbia, to Haitian migrants chased by US mounted border patrols at the border between the US and Mexico. But what about love?

In a world marred by conflict and displacement, the concept of 'home' takes on profound significance. Dr. Ammar Azzouz, a Syrian British architect, delves into the question, “What does it mean to lose home?” in his exceptional book, “Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria.”

A space for music and discussion, SAOT Festival in Berlin is the sound and voice of Palestinians and people from SWANA countries gathering for intersectionality and social change. An interview with one of its co-organizers, Diana Nazzal.