The thrilling program for Shubbak Festival 2023 has been announced, celebrating the seventh edition of London’s largest festival of contemporary Arab arts and cultures, with further events across the UK -- from Friday 23rd June to Sunday 9th July 2023.

The filmmaker and artist now adds writer to his resume and in the process, takes his readers on a journey through a Los Angeles that may be gone, but definitely isn't forgotten, both in cinema and in our collective subconscious.

Sayed Kashua is a Palestinian writer who pens his work in Hebrew and whose latest projects include a film helmed by an Israeli filmmaker and a TV series airing on Israeli kids TV -- but don't call the man a bridge-builder, not to his face anyway!

The British writer whose work includes 'The Buddha of Suburbia', 'My Son the Fanatic' which along with 'My Beautiful Laundrette' he also helped to turn into movies, was hospitalized with a serious spinal cord injury just before New Year's. His journey back from total paralysis, which you can follow on Twitter or by signing up to his newsletter, is heartbreaking and inspiring at once.

Iranian cinema occupies a special place in this year's program for the event held in Florence, from 4 to 9 October 2022 at Cinema La Compagnia, Cinema Stensen and other locations throughout the city.

The volume, edited by Bruno Doucey, is part of a six-book series by luxury publisher Assouline on the many wonders of Saudi Arabia.

It turns out there are more than 550 different palettes of the iconic Valentino Red present in the Maison's archives.

The Mexican author and filmmaker announced on his Twitter feed how proud he is about the publication in Arabic of his 1994 novel 'A Sweet Scent of Death'.

Film screenings, authors' discussions and loads of Algerian culture are on the menu at the French cultural institution in South Kensington.

The novelist fled Zanzibar in the 1960s to settle in the UK and began writing as a 21-year-old refugee.

Edited by Stefanie van der Peer, the book is titled 'Animation in the Middle East: Practice and Aesthetics from Baghdad to Casablanca'

Iranian/Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari will direct the historical fiction about the life of Princess Soraya Esfandiary Bahktiari

The Palestinian-Israeli actors in Eran Kolirin's 'Let There Be Morning' object to the film being labelled as "Israeli" and will not attend the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is slated to screen in Un Certain Regard on July 10.