Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid has curated a playlist to accompany her profile in frieze Issue 257, dedicated to the Gulf region. Moving from the distinctive dembow of Jey One to the dulcet ...

Author Randa Abdel-Fattah will feature at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival. The festival said Dr Abdel-Fattah was invited last year, stating it was "not in the business of cancelling or censoring ...

13 February will present Medhat Saleh, one of Egypt's most popular singers with a wide collection of famous songs, such as ...

Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get ...

"Community" is a beloved modern TV comedy and its fandom is still faithfully revisiting the series. Some fans might not know that "Community" actually has a spinoff series they may have missed between ...

Abdel M. Agami, 85, passed away peacefully at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on January 6, 2026. He was born on July 13, 1940, in Alexandria, Egypt. A lifelong scholar and educator, Abdel ...

Every year, the awards gods decree that a certain group of films are the most noteworthy. Many of the same titles end up appearing on every list of critics association awards, guild nominations and ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie hero and a relic of a fictional noughties brigade, the French 75. Led by his lover Perfidia ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Rob Reiner was born into the lineage of comedy thanks to his father, television pioneer Carl Reiner, and he first ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...