Topic: World
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The best films and TV of 2024
From Big Zuu Goes to Mecca to No Other Land, our critic picks the best things she’s watched this year
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Starmer’s Saudi trip showed PM trying to walk at least two fine lines
On a visit to meet controversial Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime minister hailed Assad’s fall in Syria — but what of the group that toppled him?
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Concern grows for UK Syrians as government fails to commit to their rights
Britain has paused 6,500 asylum claims and would not be drawn on people’s existing leave to remain. Syrians say it has tempered their joy at Assad’s fall
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The best music of 2024
A year soundtracked by long-lost qawwali gems, innovative reinterpretations of traditional South Asian instrumentation and a thrilling journey through 1980s Uzbekistan
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IRA hunger strikers join British Army veteran in Ireland-wide fast for Palestine
Organisers see parallels between historical Irish struggle for independence and the siege of Gaza by a ‘towering oppressor’
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Kazim Ali: ‘I don’t stake a claim to being Muslim with a capital M, but it’s what I will always be’
The author and poet on his relationship with writing and religious identity
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Electronic producer Waleed on the universality of dance music
The Iraqi-Puerto Rican artist on his musical journey ahead of the release of his debut EP Magdalena
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A personal portrait of Umrah
Photographing my first pilgrimage to Mecca as a new mother allowed me to capture the beauty, chaos and peace of this sacred journey
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Jameel Prize: artists inspired by Islamic tradition explore alternative narratives
The V&A’s Moving Images showcases prize winner Khandakar Ohida and six other shortlisted contemporary artists from across the Middle East and South Asia
