Alexandra, Why?
19 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Alexandra, Why? (Iskanderiya... leh?) won the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the 1978 Berlin Fi...
Bosta
19 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Few Arab musicals have ever attempted to tread the ground of Bosta, a film about the aftermath of ...
Capturing the Changing Face of Middle Eastern Experience
18 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence These nine Middle Eastern feature films, from 1960 to 2010, have come to represent pivotal transit...
Ali Ferzat in his own words
03 June '12
IN HIS OWN WORDS Ali Ferzat on Art, Censorship, freedom and the revolution in Syria. I think I was five when I started drawing cartoons and making up satirical stories about what was taking place in my own house. I didn’t choose to be a caricaturist. I was born like this. When I was twelve […]
Mohamed at Eton, A film by Shehani Fernando
03 April '12
Al Jazeera English Presents: WITNESS: MOHAMED AT ETON In September 2010, 16-year-old Palestinian refugee Mohamad Fahed arrives at London’s Heathrow airport and is taken to Britain’s most prestigious private school, Eton College. Here, thanks to an all-expenses paid scholarship, he will spend the next two years, adopting the mantle of a public schoolboy in an […]
Film Review: Where do we go now (2011) | Dir. Nadine Labaki
26 March '12
By Salima Odeh Set in a small Lebanese village against the backdrop of a civil war, Labaki’s most recent feature explores the life of a...
Film Review: Habibi (2011) | Dir. Susan Youssef
22 March '12
By Mohammad Mirbashiri Caught between a rock and a hard place, Habibi tells the morose tale of a young Palestinian couple in love against all...
Offscreen Expeditions: Journey to Saudi Arabia | Film 05
14 March '12
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 05: Paint the Way The team spends some time with a young Saudi artist based in Jeddah who uses graffiti to express herself and share her thoughts with the wider world. We follow her with her stencil partner as they spray their art around the city. www.offscreenexpedition.com/2012_sa/ ABOUT […]
Offscreen Expeditions: Journey to Saudi Arabia
08 February '12
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 03: Pilgrimage to Makkah With the Hajj exhibition taking place in the British Museum right now, Awais shares his account of what it felt like travelling from the UK to perform Umrah. Arabia Offscreen, an international creative competition attracted more than 500 entries from talented young artists, designers, […]
Offscreen Expeditions: Journey to Saudi Arabia
25 January '12
Offscreen Expeditions: Journey to Saudi Arabia Film 1: Introduction to Arabia Offscreen This short film showcases the magnitude of the journey; the impact it made on the winners, the places they went to and the faces they met. Arabia Offscreen, an international creative competition attracted more than 500 entries from talented young artists, designers, film-makers, […]