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Metropolis Cinema Celebrates Two Decades in Beirut

Metropolis Cinema Celebrates Two Decades in Beirut

The Metropolis Cinema in Beirut celebrates twenty years of showing indie cinema, surviving multiple crises.

24 JULY 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Palestine is the World in its Future Tense

Palestine is the World in its Future Tense

The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their...

26 JUNE 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
No Final Curtain on Beirut’s Zoukak Theatre

No Final Curtain on Beirut’s Zoukak Theatre

Zoukak embodied a rarity in the Lebanese theatre world, running ten years longer than its intrepid founders expected.

5 JUNE 2026 • By Amelia Izmanki
The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

Six years into Lebanon’s collapse, Beirut’s cultural centers struggle to cope with an unprecedented displacement crisis.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Fatima Mernissi—The Unforgotten Sultana

Fatima Mernissi—The Unforgotten Sultana

Ten years after her death, the legacy of Moroccan sociologist, feminist, and postcolonial thinker Fatima Mernissi is alive.

21 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Claudia Mende
In Flawed Democracies, White Supremacy and Ethnocentrism Flourish

In Flawed Democracies, White Supremacy and Ethnocentrism Flourish

The author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others contrasts American white supremacy with Israeli Jewish...

1 AUGUST 2021 • By Mya Guarnieri
 
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