Today's most pressing global concerns make up Bollywood's brave new frontier, notes a fervid Irrfan Khan in conversation with Gamal Nkrumah

Ati Metwaly rediscovers Puccini

Iran and the Arab world were the focus of last week's Paris Photo, a photography show confirming international interest in Middle Eastern art, writes David Tresilian in Paris

By Mursi Saad El-Din