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The exile of Mosab Abu Toha: how a Gazan poet was forced to flee his home | Gaza

This time last year, Mosab Abu Toha was standing in a queue waiting to pass a checkpoint. He had already made the difficult...

Immigration is the toxic issue defining the US election. In Arizona, the debate is deadly | US elections 2024

In a nondescript parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, the toxic politics of immigration are omnipresent. I am here for the launch of a...

‘They’d ask me: “Do you want to die today?”’ How I was kidnapped by pirates – and rescued by US Navy Seals | Africa

In the first moments of her kidnapping, Jessica Buchanan’s brain seized up, her mind went blank – but her body knew. Her experience...

‘They’d come to take our heads’: the surfing daredevils who risked everything for the perfect wave | Film

In 1975, two Australian surfers thought they had discovered the holy grail: the perfect wave. Kevin Lovett and John Geisel were at the...

Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison drama | Festivals

There’s charm, energy and optimism in this big-hearted film, inspired by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts project that teaches theatre skills to US...

The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge | Film

There have been dozens of (mostly inadequate) attempts to adapt Alexandre Dumas’ behemoth payback yarn on film and TV, but it doesn’t stop...

‘January 6 was just the warm-up’: the film that tracks three Maga extremists storming the Capitol | Documentary films

Homegrown is a documentary about three American patriots who love their country, revere Donald Trump and balk at the result of the 2020...

‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller | Film

Even when change is long-awaited, it’s not always easy to handle. The Saudi Arabian director Ali Kalthami was born in 1983, the year...

‘My dream was to have a six-pack and a gun’: Shah Rukh Khan on being ‘king’ of Bollywood | Film

It is a burning high summer in the Swiss lakeside town of Locarno and the Indian movie star Shah Rukh Khan is flying...

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