For the first time in the history of the event, the Golden Bear goes to Turkey. Samir Farid reports from the Berlin Film Festival

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (2009) by Daoud Hari. Random House, New York

Orientalism in western art and literature has been much commented upon, but a Paris concert series has broken new ground in exploring representations of the orient in music, writes David Tresilian

An unexpectedly pleasant surprise: Injy El-Kashef goes to the movies