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.

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.

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.

Khartoum’s old cinema houses live on – and speak about the current and past relationship between the city and those who live in it

Egypt’s Faten Hamama, one of Arab cinema’s great legends and known the 50s & 60s as ‘The Lady of the Arabic Screen’, is still recording movies.

Moustache is a short film by Kuwaiti film maker Meqdad Al-Kout, humourising non-conformity with the norms of society.

A couple of Cairenes want to create their own qabila — but no tribe in the traditional sense, these are people connected by a passion for media.

Bahrâm Zand, doubleur de célèbres films et séries télévisées possède une voix connue de tous les Iraniens, une voix avec laquelle ils ont grandi, pleuré et ri.

Bahrâm Zand has a unique voice. An experienced dubber, many Iranians have grown up, smiled and cried to the sound of this man’s voice.