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This is the final blog post by guest blogger Malu Halasa, Writer in Residence for Safar: A Journey though Popular Arab Cinema, a season of classic and contemporary Arab cinema at the ICA from 21 – 27 September 2012.

Following the interwoven lives of eight characters, Kamla Abu Zekry's compelling ensemble film One-Zero (Wahed-Sefr),takes place on the eve of the Egypt v Cameroon match in the 2008 Africa World Cup Final.

After a 15-year-long civil war, one way Lebanese artists reflected on the experience was the use or subversion of documentary archives to somehow suggest an alternative reality.

Few Arab musicals have ever attempted to tread the ground of Bosta, a film about the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, exile, lost love and the generational struggle between tradition and modernity.

Just like today's pressures on young men and women in the Middle East to conform to an acceptable Muslim lifestyle, there were similar social pressures in the 1970s for what some would say represents the polar opposite - towards secularism and liberalism.

At our recent Culture Now: Twenty Minutes Later, Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel and George Stone discussed their involvement in creating the ground-breaking 80s virtual personality, Max Headroom.

Sometimes people ask "why is rap so angry?" When hip hop artists speak candidly of the misery and hardships of their youths.

Throughout the exhibition, the ICA's Lower Gallery is temporarily reconstructed as a symbolic archive of material.

Last month poet, critic and teacher David Herd led one of our gallery 'touring talks' through our current exhibition, 'In Number'.