Middle East and Africa

This collection gathers stories that cross borders under pressure—espionage, empire, and exile all surface here, often through outsiders navigating systems built on suspicion or division. Political struggle recurs not as backdrop but as lived texture, whether it's apartheid in Goodbye Bafana and The Power of One, colonial defiance in A United Kingdom, or the surveillance dread threading through Red Sparrow and Afghan Star. Even the lighter entries—Zarafa's cross-continental journey, Zohan's culture-clash comedy—carry that same undercurrent of navigating a world where identity and geography carry real stakes.

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