This piece was originally published on Resistance Archive’s Substack on January 14, 2026 The protests now unfolding across Iran are being pulled into a familiar struggle over meaning. On one side is the Iranian state, working to portray dissent as criminality and foreign conspiracy. On the other are Western media ecosystems and diaspora political actors […]
Reel Palestine returns to Cinema Akil this January for its 12th edition, continuing its long presence in the region’s independent film calendar. Running from 23 January to 1 February, the festival brings together fiction, documentary and short films that reflect Palestinian life across different geographies, histories and forms. Rather than positioning cinema as spectacle, Reel […]
The award-winning autofiction animation explores a past shared by identical twins. When death intervenes, it moves between science and faith, returning to memory as the force that binds the real and the imagined.
