Nada Zanhour’s reflections on Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh’s latest solo exhibition in Beirut revolving around themes of love, language, and war
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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’
Beirut, I Love You
‘Lebanon was, and always will be schizophrenic’ - A review of Zena El Khalil’s memoir, ‘Beirut, I Love You’, now available in North America
All Dolled Up
Rima Chahrour of Lebanese artist collective The Freaks looks at the use of dolls in the works of Zena El Khalil and Mohammad Rawas
Beirut, Remixed
A look at the life and works of iconic Lebanese photographer-cum-renaissance man Joe Kesrouani, Beirut’s man of magic