Street Fighter star Rayna Vallandingham wants to rewrite the rules for Indian women on screen | The National
Actress of Indian-Dutch descent hopes to be role model she struggled to find growing up
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Heritage is not fixed in the past but reinvented in real time | The National
Unesco's International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage invites us to consider the practices and knowledge communities pass forward
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Arabic word of the week: 'Finjan', the humble cup that symbolises hospitality | The National
From Persian origins to a place in Arab coffee traditions, it bears a meaning far greater than its size
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How a chance encounter with a sheep inspired a film about Palestinian displacement | The National
In Concrete Land, director Asmahan Bkerat chronicles eight years in the lives of an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family in Jordan, capturing their struggle to hold on to their home as eviction threatens their way of life