Hamad Al Omani, left, stars as Badr Al Mutairi in the eight-episode series A'wam Aldhalam. Photo: Shasha

Kuwaiti Ramadan series captures wrongful imprisonment of writer Badr Al Mutairi

Released a month after his death, the show is a study in resilience and systemic injustice

Culture

Syrian Ramadan series on Assad-era prisons ignites backlash

Film & TV

Egyptian film Safe Exit examines generational trauma after ISIS violence

Film & TV

Baftas 2026: One Battle After Another and Hamnet are big winners

Culture

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finale buries Westeros’s last hope for peace

Film & TV

Bafta 2026: Why Hamnet may upset One Battle After Another for Best Film

Film & TV

'We will remember everyone who stood against us': Gaza dominates Berlin festival

Film & TV
Emirati artist Sarah Almehairi's 2024 painting Off Centered Control is on display. Photo: Dubai Culture

Dubai Collection Nights brings a masterpiece owned by Sheikh Mohammed into public view

A Moustafa Fathi painting owned by the Dubai Ruler and more are on display at Al Safa Art & Design Library

Art & Design

UAE art guide: 16 museum and gallery exhibitions to see this week

Art & Design

'Like walking into a majlis': How Zayed National Museum hits all five senses

Culture

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to open in coming months, says museum's project director

Art & Design
Big Bad Wolf book sale offers fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, children's titles and educational material at subsidised rates. Antonie Robertson / The National

Big Bad Wolf comes knocking in Dubai again with more than one million books

The event is styled in the manner of a touring warehouse and offers titles from Dh2

Books

How a plane journey inspired me to write the modern Muslim woman

Books

Sharjah Ruler launches translation of Portuguese-Gulf history in Lisbon

Books

Cairo's Diwan Publishing brings Nobel winner Naguib Mahfouz to new readers

Books

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