‘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 …’

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige investigate the humble origins, glory days, and sudden end of Lebanon’s all but forgotten ‘Rocket Society’

‘How is it possible to call Bahrain “home”, or at least belong there? Zakharia’s images are rich with traces of impossibilities …’

‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’

A look at the sonic career of Yasmine Hamdan, from her iconoclastic Soap Kills days to her present status as the femme fatale of alternative Arabic music

‘… This is what the people of Lebanon do. They keep going, rebuilding and restarting, no matter what keeps coming’

‘Lebanon was, and always will be schizophrenic’ – A review of Zena El Khalil’s memoir, ‘Beirut, I Love You’, now available in North America

Rima Chahrour of Lebanese artist collective The Freaks looks at the use of dolls in the works of Zena El Khalil and Mohammad Rawas

Marc Codsi, Beirut’s sonic postman on his album, Faded Postcards, the extremities of Lebanese society, and the pacifying power of music