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In Lebanon, It’s Business as Usual

In Lebanon, It’s Business as Usual

In her biweekly column, Amal Ghandour calls out the failures of the Lebanese state and its complacent citizens.

21 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
In Lebanon, Art is a Matter of Survival

In Lebanon, Art is a Matter of Survival

Cultural arts venues have reopened, but Lebanon still faces canceled international events due to the ongoing war and...

22 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Nada Ghosn
Why We Stay in Beirut, Despite Its Countless Crises

Why We Stay in Beirut, Despite Its Countless Crises

TMR's editor in chief, Jordan Elgrably, asks four Beirutis why they stay, and how they manage, enduring one...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops

Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops

Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.

10 JULY 2023 • By Justin Olivier Salhani
“The City Within”—fiction from MK Harb

“The City Within”—fiction from MK Harb

In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of...

2 JULY 2023 • By MK Harb
Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel

Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel

In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that...

2 JULY 2023 • By Rawand Issa
The Saga of Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

The Saga of Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

Lebanon's garbage crisis inspired a futurist film but the 2020 Port Explosion made it a contemporary dystopia.

1 MAY 2023 • By Meera Santhanam
Remembering the Armenian Genocide From Lebanon

Remembering the Armenian Genocide From Lebanon

Mireille Rebeiz remembers her Tante Rose and the lore of Armenian culture-history in Lebanon, where forgetting is endemic.

17 APRIL 2023 • By Mireille Rebeiz
Tel Aviv-Beirut, a Film on War, Love & Borders

Tel Aviv-Beirut, a Film on War, Love & Borders

Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.

20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim Goury
Interview with Michale Boganim, Director of Tel Aviv-Beirut

Interview with Michale Boganim, Director of Tel Aviv-Beirut

Karim Goury talks to the director of the new feature film on war, love and borders, Tel Aviv-Beirut.

20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim Goury
War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s Watermelon Stories

War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s Watermelon Stories

Rana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised...

20 MARCH 2023 • By Rana Asfour
The Forced Disappearance of Street Vendors in Beirut

The Forced Disappearance of Street Vendors in Beirut

In the midst of Lebanon's economic crisis, UN policy and research specialist Ghida Ismail laments the vanishing of...

13 MARCH 2023 • By Ghida Ismail
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