Keri Russell as Kate Wyler and Rufus Sewell as Hal Wyler in season four of The Diplomat. Photo: Netflix

TV show of the weekThe Diplomat season four: The story so far before Netflix return

Keri Russell returns as US ambassador Kate Wyler, with a missing nuclear weapon and her vice-president husband complicating matters

Film & TV

Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival returns to Abu Dhabi with message of renewal

Culture

Nana Patekar's most memorable roles, from Krantiveer to Dubai-shot Welcome

Film & TV

Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar dies aged 75

Film & TV

Eight space films that imagine a better future for humanity

Culture

Who won Netflix's Physical 100: Italy and what happened in the finale?

Film & TV

Film of the weekThe murder story behind Netflix's true-crime documentary The Widower

Film & TV
Traces uses engraved glass, light and shadow to turn Juma Al Haj’s inscriptions into shifting fragments of meaning. Victor Besa / The National

UAE art guide: 11 exhibitions to see in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah

Plus, Eman Al Hashemi's new exhibition at Iris Projects

Art & Design

Small stamps, big ambitions: A history of Middle East progress

Art & Design

Juma Al Haj explores seclusion and revelation in Abu Dhabi solo show

Culture

Five highlights of Christie’s first Abu Dhabi fine art auction

Art & Design
Anne Carson was in Iceland when she learnt of her Nobel Prize win, with the Swedish Academy saying the Canadian writer was surprised but delighted by the news. Photo: Wikimedia

Why Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

Canadian poet and classical scholar recognised for her work drawing on ancient Greek literature

Books

Could an Arab writer win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature? Nine names to know

Culture

Why Jeffrey Archer kept coming back to the UAE

Books

Jeffrey Archer, whose books sold 300 million copies, dies aged 86

Books

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