Season three of Squid Game got 60.1 million views in only three days. Photo: Netflix

Loved Squid Game? Here are six other TV shows to watch like it

The South Korean hit may be over, but there are plenty of similarly themed shows that keep the tension alive

Film & TV

Emirati acting pioneer Raziqa Al Taresh dies aged 71

Culture

InterviewBrad Pitt finally has his blockbuster – and Abu Dhabi helped make it happen

Film & TV

Eight actors who controversially 'starred' in films after their death

Culture

How Abu Dhabi's local talent helped bring F1 The Movie to life

Culture

James Gunn’s Superman influences: What to watch and read before film hits cinemas

Culture

Middle East filmmakers invited to join Oscars academy

Culture
Remembering the Light is running at the Sursock Museum until September 4. Photo: Sursock Museum

Artists 'find some light' on return to Beirut after 14 years

Lebanese duo's exhibition at Sursock Museum explores what it means to remember and reconstruct

Culture

Time-travel to Baghdad, Rome and Mughal India with Louvre Abu Dhabi's VR project

Culture

Australia reverses decision to axe Lebanese-born artist from Venice role

Art & Design

Weekly museum and gallery guide: Emirati and African artists in the spotlight

Culture
Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize this year for Heart Lamp. Getty Images

Banu Mushtaq: My Booker Prize is a victory for women and secular Muslims

The celebrated author of Heart Lamp talks to The National about her life-long activism and why she will continue to use her voice to call for change

Books

Take a leaf out of our books: The National's 19 favourite summer reads

Books

Palestinian author hopes future readers won’t believe her book

Books

Zadie Smith among 380 UK writers calling for end of 'genocide' in Gaza

Culture

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