Third of a series of film reviews produced by REORIENT, Joobin Bekhrad wrote on the film Karima, directed by Hassan Hajjaj, freshly released.

Iraqi Odyssey is a documentary film directed by Samir and released in 2014. This is the second of a series of film reviews co-published with REORIENT.

First film review produced by REORIENT and co-published by Mashallah News. We begin with the Algerian film “The Man from Oran” by Lyes Salem, released in 2014.

German photographer Julius Matuschik documented the last remaining movie theatres in Palestine in his “Cinema Filistin” series.

In this introduction to our recently published anthology Beirut Re-Collected, Mashallah News co-editor Jenny Gustafsson recalls an encounter with the residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

What if humans could overcome mortality? This question is at the core of Lebanese writer and director Darine Hotait’s the short science fiction movie Orb.

After Gezi, is it possible for Istanbul’s cultural industry to cling on to the easily marketable currency of “self-Orientalism”?

Movies screened at the 17th Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, finding new pathways to narrate conditions in the Arab universe of life.

“A Woman Sings Under the Ice”, a short film by Tehran-based animator and illustrator Maryam Khalilzade, marries poetry and fantasy.

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is a collaborative initiative between various marginalised and migrant communities to organise free screenings of short films made with cell phones using a rickshaw-powered projector.