Section: Culture
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The best of Bradford Intercultured festival 2024
From Sudanese cuisine to documentary screenings, the annual event continues with its mission to build connections and create community
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Restoration and reclamation reign at the London Film festival
Themes of erasure and renewal run through a selection of films looking to keep the stories of the Arab world alive
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Somali Week festival celebrates the community while putting the climate crisis front and centre
The arts festival runs from 18-27 October in London and includes talks, films, music and theatre from the Somali region and diaspora
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Rewriting the rules: the history of Indian cinema shows the many faces of a changing nation
From the country’s first known queer film to feminist documentaries, Indian Parallel Cinema is finally getting the international recognition it deserves
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‘My intention is to provoke’: why director Laila Abbas made a film about Islamic inheritance laws
The Palestinian director on her feature debut Thank You for Banking With Us!, which traces two sisters who contend with patriarchal inheritance traditions after the death of their father
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Lyrical images of the Caspian Sea show a natural treasure in peril
In a new book, photographer Khashayar Javanmardi returns to the once-abundant Iranian shores on which he grew up
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Qais Essar: ‘Music is banned in Afghanistan. The quieter it gets there, the louder I have to be’
On two new albums, the boundary-breaking artist pushes the traditional rabab into uncharted territory
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Looted, destroyed and erased: archivists around the world struggle to save Palestinian histories
Cultural heritage has long been a target of Israel’s war and occupation, with many archives across Gaza and the West Bank now gone forever
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Inside Kosovo’s feminist art festival
For the past 12 years, FemArt has created a space where important ideas are discussed and creativity flows freely
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The Apprentice: Ali Abbasi’s Trump origin story unveils a grotesque truth
The Iranian-Danish director returns with another grim tale — this time tracing a younger Donald Trump, whom he makes odious without becoming an inhuman caricature
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Reclaiming narratives for Black History Month and beyond
Across the UK, a wealth of organisations are dedicated to telling Black Muslim stories. Here are just a few of them
