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William Mullally

William Mullally

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William Mullally is Arts & Culture Editor at The National. An award-winning culture writer, he’s lived in the UAE since 2009 and chronicled the rise of the region’s diverse creative scenes. He’s served as Dubai Eye 103.8’s film critic since 2013, and has contributed to Arab News, ET Bil Arabi, The Insider Arabia, GQ Middle East, Esquire Middle East, Al Arabiya, Savoir Flair and Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. His long-running celebrity interview series has achieved more than 50 million views across his YouTube and TikTok channels.

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Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham, right, and Rachel Szor, second from left, reunite for a new documentary premiering at the Venice Film Festival. AFP
No Other Land directors’ Gaza film on ‘calculated mass killing’ heads to Venice

Film takes its title from an Israeli military term for civilians expected to be killed in an air strike

Film & TVAugust 24, 2026
Director Kaouther Ben Hania stands beside actor Motaz Malhees, who holds a portrait of the slain Palestinian girl at the premiere of The Voice of Hind Rajab in Venice. AFP
'Will anyone actually be brought to justice?' asks Voice of Hind Rajab actor

Actor Motaz Malhees, director Kaouther Ben Hania and Hind Rajab’s mother question whether Israel’s investigation can deliver genuine accountability

Film & TVAugust 21, 2026
Israeli singers have been accused of copying visuals from Elyanna’s music video for her 2024 hit Ganeni. Photo: Universal Arabic Music
Israeli singers accused of copying Palestinian artist Elyanna’s music video

Commenters have described the alleged similarities as an example of Israeli appropriation of Palestinian and Arab culture

CultureAugust 21, 2026
Ryan Clark of the band Demon Hunter, left, and a still from KPop Demon Hunters. Photo: Getty Images / Sony Pictures Animation
Christian metal band Demon Hunter sues Netflix over hit K-pop film

Lawsuit cites $500 ticket mix-up as film expands into merchandise, recorded music and planned global tour

Film & TVAugust 19, 2026
Anthropic bought millions of second-hand books for AI training, destroying the physical copies after their pages were scanned. Getty Images
Play05:51
CommentAnthropic could buy millions of books because we had already let them go

From tomes bought to train AI to games sold only as licences, the distinction between owning culture and simply accessing it is becoming difficult to ignore

BooksAugust 19, 2026
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake caused cracks in walls and sent debris falling in Granada on Tuesday, injuring three people days after a stronger quake hit the southern Spanish city. AFP
Granada earthquakes damage historic sites and close Alhambra’s Alcazaba

Damage was also recorded at the Church of San Miguel Bajo in the Albaicin

CultureAugust 19, 2026
No reason was given for the cancellation of Christina Aguilera's September 25 concert. Photo: Etihad Arena
Christina Aguilera’s Abu Dhabi concert in September cancelled

Ticket holders will receive full refunds within 21 working days, says Ticketmaster

Music & On-stageAugust 18, 2026
And What Did You Say? by Russian artist Taus Makhacheva at the UAE pavilion at Venice Biennale. Photo: National Pavilion UAE
Art fairs worth travelling to, from Venice and Paris to Seoul and Istanbul

Guide to 10 exhibitions shaping international art calendar in the final months of the year

Art & DesignAugust 17, 2026
Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre play two intergalactic policemen drawn into a murder investigation, in Lanterns. AFP
At 60, Kyle Chandler looked at an ‘ageing-out superhero’ and saw himself

HBO’s Lanterns pairs Chandler and Aaron Pierre as intergalactic policemen who barely get along

Film & TVAugust 16, 2026
new archaeological discovery at Tell Abu Seifi in Qantara East redraws the map of Horus's war route. Photo: MOTA Egypt
Archaeologists may have found Egypt’s lost city of Masn

Sandstone inscription found near Suez Canal adds new evidence to a debate dating back almost 140 years

CultureAugust 16, 2026
From left, John Ross Bowie, Lauren Lapkus, Kevin Sussman and Brian Posehn reprise their Big Bang Theory characters in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. Photo: HBO Max
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe breaks every Big Bang Theory rule but one

Four episodes in, the creators explain why a show capable of going anywhere still needs something to hold it in place

Film & TVAugust 15, 2026
Jared Harris, left, plays former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, alongside Jeff Daniels, who plays former US president Ronald Reagan. Photo: Angel Studios
What a new film about Reagan and Gorbachev can teach leaders amid the Iran war

Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris explain why dialogue and trust between enemies remain essential to preventing catastrophe

Film & TVAugust 14, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been a major hit in UAE cinemas, grossing more than $7 million in its first 10 days of release. Photo: Empire Entertainment
Why does it suddenly feel harder to get a cinema ticket in the UAE?

An unusually strong summer at the box office is being driven by changing Gen Z habits, the Nolan effect and a thinner live entertainment calendar

Film & TVAugust 12, 2026
Irthi Museum will be based in Sharjah Creative Quarter. Photo: WAM
New Sharjah museum will be region’s first dedicated to contemporary crafts

Irthi Museum will build a permanent collection at Sharjah Creative Quarter, with a 2029 opening previously announced

Art & DesignAugust 10, 2026
Habibi Hussein tells the story of the projectionist left out of an earlier documentary about the revival of Cinema Jenin in the West Bank. Photo: Odeh Films
Film of the weekThe true hero behind Palestine's Cinema Jenin finally has his story told

Alex Bakri revisits the celebrated restoration project through the eyes of the projectionist whose decades of devotion had been overlooked

Film & TVJuly 31, 2026
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