BEIRUT: Joana Hadjithomas recalls having to say goodbye to her best friend. It was 1982, not a good year in Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War, and her pal’s family...
BEIRUT: During spells of overlapping crises, some art forms fare better than others. Streets clogged by outraged demonstrators, emptied by pandemic lockdowns...
HARET HREIK, Lebanon: Villa Slim sits not far from the street sign welcoming motorists to Haret Hreik. If this municipality just south of Beirut exists in the...
BEIRUT: Manu Ferneini’s photo series “A Bigger Room” reflects upon her Lebanese family’s long relationship with their domestic servant Priya. Ferneini says...
REVIEWBEIRUT: Ghida Hachicho’s 2020 short “A crowd forms, partly planned and partly improvised,” is an unconventional depiction of popular demonstration. The...
BEIRUT: “Now I think is the time for us,” Hisham Jaber pauses. “Before, I had this feeling that I should leave. After the [April 4 Beirut Port] blast,...
REVIEW BEIRUT: There is no chanting to be heard during the Tarek Yamani Trio’s Tuesday evening concert at the Beirut Souks shopping mall. The band leader...
REVIEW BEIRUT: Viewing poverty is a complicated matter. Literary and film genres regularly harness human misery – coming-of-age stories, migration tales and,...
REVIEW HAZMIEH, Lebanon: Better late than never, they say.Just south of Furn al-Shubbak’s Chevrolet district there is a shopping mall, whose name suggests it...
BEIRUT: Few would argue that 2020’s been a great year. It’s been so miserable for Lebanon’s creative community that it’s tempting to imagine that, if we could...
BEIRUT: “Things are very bad here,” says curator Amanda Abi Khalil, “but very calm.”These days, you might be envious of anyone invited to spend five weeks in...
BEIRUT: The Goethe Institute is the latest non-state actor to intervene on behalf of Lebanon’s arts sector. The association’s recently unveiled Emergency...
REVIEWBEIRUT: Lebanon’s relatively brief history is littered with significant dates – an independence day, a massacre anniversary, a liberation, an...
BEIRUT: As this wretched year staggers on, Lebanon’s film sector has been given a shot in the arm from two distinct sources. Naturally both originate from...
BEIRUT: Less than three months after the city’s port blast eviscerated nearby residential districts, killing 200 and displacing thousands more, MBC and its...
REVIEWBEIRUT: There’s a tale that’s circulated locally about how Lebanese wines made during wars are “better” than those produced between armed conflicts.This...
BEIRUT: “Why are you and your friends making so much fuss about this blast? That’s what a friend of mine in Paris asked me. ‘There are many blasts there, many...
BEIRUT: Thanks to the pandemic, film festivals all over the place have been driven online. This country’s latest cinema celebration to seclude itself in...
BEIRUT: Two Lebanese movies have come away winners at the Venice Film Festival, though neither of them is finished.Final Cut in Venice is a workshop platform...
BEIRUT: “You travel to cities around the world and you see the harbors are a place where you can walk, go sight-seeing, meet people. Beirut Port is a...
BEIRUT: “We think the collection is largely unaffected, though the ceiling and one of the walls in the cold storage room collapsed. We think that with the...
BEIRUT: “Gaya had big dreams, big projects,” recalled Stephanie Ghougassian. “She just started her own business line and was waiting for the economic crisis...
BEIRUT: “This morning I woke up crying and angry and my anger’s been growing ever since,” said Zeina Arida, director of Nicolas Sursock Museum. “What the...
BEIRUT: Two Beirut-based organisations devoted to supporting Arab artists and arts institutions this week announced the winners of their Solidarity Fund for...
BEIRUT: Fadi El Chamaa and Semaan Khawam have had enough of social distancing. As Chamaa formulated it for a recent press release, “I’m sick of creating art...