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Tag: Middle East

From Gaza to Kabul, the Middle East takes the stage in Florence

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Editorial Staff Life

The 16th edition is underway, running until October 12 across several cinemas in the city centre.

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Middle East Now festival to be held in Florence

The Middle East Now Festival back to Florence

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Editorial Staff Life

Middle East Now Festival are returning to Florence on April 5-10, 2016 with the seventh edition.

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Middle East Now has just started in Florence

Middle East Film Festival 2014 has just started

Thursday, April 10, 2014 Editorial Staff Life

Middle East Now has just started in Florence, Italy. The festival (April 9-April 14, 2014) presents the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, through cinema, documentaries, art projects, music, food and special events.

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Cinema, Middle East Now festival returns to Florence

Saturday, April 7, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Life

Middle East in movie festivalThe peaceful Yemeni uprising, the return to Tahrir Square after the fall of the Mubarak regime, responsibility for the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri, and the massacres in Syria all feature at Middle East Now, the international festival of cinema, exhibitions and talks on the Middle East, which is returning to Florence this year.

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NEWS

Valentino Garavani, a life in fashion shaped by Florence and Tuscany

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Fiorentina president Rocco Commisso dies at 76

Saturday, January 17, 2026

BUSINESS

Florence’s new outdoor seating rules freeze surfaces in the UNESCO area

Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Florence, Fashion, and Time: from Palazzo Pitti to Pitti Uomo

Florence, Fashion, and Time: from Palazzo Pitti to Pitti Uomo

Thursday, January 15, 2026

TECH

AI-driven recommendations are reshaping cities, Italian study finds

Monday, January 19, 2026

Tuscany’s Firefighters Expand Drone Use for Search and Emergency Operations

Friday, January 16, 2026

TRAVEL

Florence tram ridership tops 45 million in 2025 amid works and archaeological finds

Monday, January 19, 2026

Florence high-speed trains will not stop at Santa Maria Novella in late January

Monday, January 12, 2026

ARTS

Florence brings Giacomo Balla back into focus at Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni

Florence brings Giacomo Balla back into focus at Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni

Friday, January 9, 2026

Rothko in Florence: a major exhibition opens at Palazzo Strozzi in 2026

Monday, January 5, 2026

LIFE

Florence Korea Film Fest returns in March with films, shorts and digital comics

Florence Korea Film Fest returns in March with films, shorts and digital comics

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Historic Caffè Gilli in Florence to Close Temporarily for Renovation

Saturday, January 17, 2026

SPORTS

Fiorentina faces new mourning after Commisso’s passing

Sunday, January 18, 2026

White Christmas at Abetone as snow falls and ski lifts operate

Thursday, December 25, 2025

OPINIONS

The Renee Good Case: The Trouble with Explaining Violence

Thursday, January 15, 2026
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When Power Stops Answering to Institutions

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Beyond the Law: How We Choose Our Wars

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

ITALIANO

Il rischio idrogeologico divide Regione Toscana e Comune a Signa

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Signa, il caso urbanistico del Crocifisso finisce in Regione Toscana

Friday, December 12, 2025
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