At the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Palestinians are peering through a towering border gate. What they’re looking at isn’t initially clear in Rosalind Nashashibi’s short film Electrical Gaza, but then, the 43-year-old British […]
The National, April 2015 When Akhil Sharma celebrated his 10th birthday, he was uneasily settling into a new life in America. He’d been plucked by his parents from a frugal, late-1970s Delhi into a fairy-tale […]
Bahman Mohassess (1931–2010), paper collage, 2009. © The Trustees of the British Museum The National, April 2015 In the same week that the British Museum announced plans for a major new gallery dedicated to the Islamic […]
The National, March 2015 Marcus Lyon is racing up the dramatic, sweeping Nelson staircase in London’s Somerset House, the spectacular neoclassical building on the banks of the Thames that is exhibiting some of his awe-inspiring […]
The National, March 2015 Early reviews of Furious 7, which features key scenes filmed in Abu Dhabi, are in. Here are seven things we learnt from them 1. The “virtual Paul Walker” bits work The […]