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Deli Boys season 2 — the only disappointment is how quickly it ends
The Disney+ comedy carries all the swagger of a show that’s already won over its audience, and creator Abdullah Saeed remains committed to making audiences laugh by any means necessary
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‘Not just ticking the box’: what representation really means for Muslims in the arts
More writers across TV and theatre are now creating work that pushes back against limiting and sometimes harmful portrayals of Muslim life
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Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic — a slick satire about fame as an instrument of state control
The Swedish-Egyptian director examines the uneasy relationship between artists, propaganda and authoritarianism
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Attenborough at 100: how millions were able to see and appreciate the wider world
As the BBC marks Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday with Making Life on Earth, Leila Latif reflects that aside from astonishing longevity, his impact often comes down to getting people to care enough to look
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Seemab Gul on Ghost School: ‘Education is about questioning everything around us’
The director’s debut feature film offers a haunting meditation on the place of women and girls in Pakistani society
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Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm softens the blow of Orwell’s satire
Despite some sacrifices of the novel’s bite, this animated adaptation contains clear echoes of a contemporary political landscape in which belonging is conditional
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UK Asian Film Festival 2026 preview: art as a warning against indifference
Ghost School and Shadowbox, screening at this year’s festival, are two deeply affecting portraits of women navigating impossible circumstances
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Riz Ahmed: ‘I act like no one is watching and write like no one is going to read it’
The Bait creator and his co-star Guz Khan don’t want to please everyone — and that’s the point of their new show about a British Muslim actor caught up in a Bond-casting buzz
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The Oscars arrives at an uneasy moment for a US celebration of Iran
It feels both apt and surreal that so many Iranian films have emerged as key nominees at the Oscars, including It Was Just an Accident and Cutting Through Rocks
