A new SAT-7 ARABIC drama will promote women’s and minority rights among millions of viewers in the Middle East. By allowing them to identify with those who are different, Backstage will encourage the tolerance that is greatly needed as new, coronavirus-related human rights abuses hit the region’s most marginalised people.

As Christmas approaches, one cannot help but look around our region, and indeed the whole world, and wonder where the season’s peace and joy can be found.

SAT-7 viewers were shocked and some directly affected by the bomb blast that claimed the lives of 25 people in church on Sunday morning (11 December 2016).