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Your weekly update of Arab cinema in NYC! Highlights for the next few weeks include: - A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD has been held over at Quad Cinema through August 20! - MoMA’s Immigrant Nation: People in Transit continues on with a great selec
Our next screening is coming up fast on July 1st at @nitehawkcinema - Prospect Park where we will be showing UNDER THE FIG TREES by @erigesehiri (Director of the new film PROMISED SKY which opens at Film Forum June 12). On a hot summer morning, a cr
Very pleased to announce the next Cinema Arabiyya screening…marking ✨2✨ years of the series…is AMREEKA! This beloved, award-winning Palestinian-American film by @cheriendabis returns to the big screen after being largely inaccessible
SOLD OUT! For the next installment of Cinema Arabiyya, we will be screening the film DIRTY, DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS by @wissam__charaf. Beirut, Lebanon, nowadays. Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker, are living an
Excited to announce the first Cinema Arabiyya screening of 2026! We will be screening AS I OPEN MY EYES (2015) dir. @leyla.bouzid. Set on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution, this film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the ey
We are extremely sad to learn of the passing of Mohammad Bakri this morning. He’s pictured here, in the first photo, in the film WAJIB which we had the pleasure of screening next month. Mohammad was a father of Palestinian cinema. A prolific
I’m happy to share a very special offer for Cinema Arabiyya followers from our friends at @filmmovement! @scandemon’s new film HAPPY HOLIDAYS opens this Friday December 5 at @filmforumnyc! Get a discounted ticket with code CINEMAARABIY

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