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Saeed Kamali Dehghan

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Saeed Kamali Dehghan is a former Guardian journalist

March 2025

  • Marco Berger.

    Director Marco Berger: ‘My films make some masculine viewers question if they could be gay’

  • Lots of figures drawn in bold white lines, showing the terrorof people fleeing attack and carrying their children, goods and animals

    ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

February 2025

  • Portrait of Julie Mehretu in a gallery exhibiting her artworks

    ‘No longer on the margins’: how women are outperforming men in Africa’s art market

    In 2024, the top five highest-priced sales of African art were all by women, according to research, reflecting increased recognition and demand for their work
  • Hawa Awanle Ayiboro with two paintings of women with blue skin wearing suit jackets

    From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work

    Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women
  • A man sits on a sofa

    ‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus

    After a career making documentaries, Mahdi Fleifel has created To a Land Unknown, a feature film about the refugee experience

January 2025

  • Cate Blanchett in front of the UN logo

    Cate Blanchett launches fund for refugee film-makers

    Actor to head scheme to award grants of up to €100,000 to five directors with experience of displacement
  • A light-filled white room hung with paintings and photographs.

    ‘African art is not a fleeting trend’: Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent’s artists

    Reopening after renovation, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will provide a permanent home for the extensive Lazraq family collection

    • Iranian Oscar nominee Mohammad Rasoulof: ‘After my arrest, I told myself: don’t hold back’

    • Moving pictures: comics and animation exhibition showcases stories of migration

    • ‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book

December 2024

  • Ascent of Man by Quddus Mirza

    Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator

    A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistance
  • People take photographs of themselves in front of a statue of Pharaoh Rameses II in the main hall of the museum

    Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

    Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundings
  • Thelma Cabrera standing in a crop field of cane

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part two

    From those performing extraordinary acts in times of war to the woman changing views of children with disabilities, these people gave us hope in a tumultuous year

November 2024

  • An image of a man printed on a banana leaf held up in the hand of the Nigerian-Canadian artist Kosisochukwu Nnebe, who created it.

    ‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

  • Maryam Tafakory, Razeh del (2024), film still. Courtesy the artist

    ‘Films were an escape – to a deeper repression’: Jarman winner Maryam Tafakory on Iranian cinema

  • MOWAA volunteer and guests arrive at the entrance to the MOWAA Institute at the hard hat opening. November 2024 (c) MOWAA.

    Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century

  • Seven large flower sculptures are seen in front of the pyramids of Giza

    Giant flowers, a buried chariot and temples in the sand: the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids

October 2024

  • Michael Blebo, photo by Emmanuel Osika Wiafe

    ‘I’m a creative military’: London embraces Ghanaian artist who chose to paint, not fight

    On the verge of giving up on his artistic ambitions and under pressure to join the army, Michael Blebo was saved by an agency dedicated to bringing the art of Africa to collectors worldwide
  • A Samburu herder in The Battle for Laikipia.

    ‘It was a challenge to film both sides’: the struggle to portray Kenya’s age-old land dispute

    From dodging bullets to sleeping on goat skins, film-makers Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki faced unique challenges when documenting the conflict between white farmers and Indigenous herders
  • An African man in a bow tie and suit sits at a grand piano with his eyes closed as an audience listens

    Musical journey: lessons begin after piano finally arrives in Ethiopia

    Getting a piano to a remote school in Africa was no easy task, but concert pianist Girma Yifrashewa knows its value
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