Brutal, revolutionary empire builder: Genghis Khan's legacy
Berlin is host to a major exhibition on the founder of the Mongol Empire and his successors. Here's how Genghis Khan disrupted the course of history.
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Love is Blind Habibi season two: Release date, cast and all we know so far | The National
Wissam Breidy and Rym Saidi to guide 27 singles through Arabic dating show’s next instalment
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Sharjah Film Platform to screen 26 films and host Oscar-nominated director Abderrahmane Sissako | The National
The 10-day festival will feature international and Emirati cinema, alongside screenings, workshops and a masterclass with the Mauritanian filmmaker
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Can DC Blend Horror with a Superhero Movie? ‘Clayface’ Wants to Blur Genres
The dominant movie genres of the past decade, superhero films and horror, have usually stayed, like bashful teenagers on the dance floor, on separate sides of the multiplex. But when James Gunn and Peter Safran were plotting the projects with which they wanted to launch their era of DC Studios, writer-director Mike Flanagan came in with a pitch that would fuse both genres.