‘When you limit yourself, you are actually more free’ - a chat with Beirut-based Syrian artist and musician Samer Saem Eldahr - a.k.a. Hello Psychaleppo! - about his latest album, HA!
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Rumour Has It
Joobin Bekhrad talks to Lebanese artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige about their work and their latest exhibition, I Must First Apologise …, currently on display at France’s Villa Arson
All Mother Tongues are Difficult
Nada Zanhour’s reflections on Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh’s latest solo exhibition in Beirut revolving around themes of love, language, and war
Voices of Marrakech
After sojourns in Alexandria and Beirut, German audiophiles Julia Tieke and Berit Schuck turned their ears towards the historic Medina of Marrakech
Jerusalem In My Heart
Natalie Shooter talks to Lebanese-Canadian musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh about the Jerusalem in My Heart project and his band’s latest album
Sleepless Nights
‘Your conscience is buried while mine is still alive … What shall I do today, Mr. Assaad Shaftari? I don’t want a statue, I want nothing, just a bone from my son …’
Lebanese Rocket Society
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige investigate the humble origins, glory days, and sudden end of Lebanon’s all but forgotten ‘Rocket Society’
They Won’t Miss Me this Afternoon
‘The kids stare at me with empty eyes. They put their planks aside and approach me carefully, pointing their long sticks like machine guns’
Shooting the Cloud
‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’
Ordinary Lives
‘… This is what the people of Lebanon do. They keep going, rebuilding and restarting, no matter what keeps coming’