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.

Before social media, before streaming took over, music videos were the event. You’d wait for them to drop on TV, then talk about them endlessly the next day. And in the early 2000s, Arab pop was ...

The other night I was listening to a Beirut-born, Paris-based quarter-tone trumpeter named Ibrahim Maalouf. He’s the son of the renowned master of the Arabic trumpet, Nassim Maalouf. Most people have ...