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Discover @MEEDiscover Oct 30

🎬 "What is exceptional about the Middle Eastern films of the autumn and winter seasons is their desire to rework genres into new hybrids that offer ample rewards for both international and local audiences" ⤵️
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www.middleeasteye.net A Lebanese bank heist towers over this winter's Middle Eastern film offerings Rami Kodeih's Furies is set during Lebanon's liquidity crisis of 2019, which led depositors to hold up banks to access their money

Discover @MEEDiscover Oct 5

Making a Killing traces the blood that flows from the ruins of Gaza and Yemen into backroom meetings with politicians and arms manufacturing CEOs, exposing the corruption at the heart of the military-industrial complex

📚 Book review by Fleur Hargreaves middleeasteye.net/discover/makin…

www.middleeasteye.net Making a Killing: Who profits from slaughter in Gaza and Yemen? New book by Andrew Feinstein traces $50bn in profit from the genocide in Gaza

Discover @MEEDiscover Sep 17

🎬 Season 5 of Fauda constructs a world in which Hamas seems to be everywhere, Europe has been compromised by Muslims and Israelis are perennially under siege.

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www.middleeasteye.net How Fauda season five rewrites the Gaza genocide The Netflix series demonises French Muslims, ignores Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and erases Palestinian suffering

Discover @MEEDiscover Aug 27

🧵Switzerland’s Locarno has been among the most hospitable fairs to the Palestinian cause and to Middle Eastern voices.

In the 79th iteration of the iconic festival, Palestine, Iran and Israel’s genocide in Gaza continued to dominate debate, writes Joseph Fahim ⤵️

Discover @MEEDiscover Jul 14

“It’s essential that we tell our own stories, especially when so much of our history and our experiences are spoken about by others or erased"

How a collaborative exhibition by artists is preserving the stories of southern Lebanon ⤵️
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www.middleeasteye.net Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon’s stories Beit Beirut holds an exhibition where villages are remembered through photography, film and personal archives