Beirut Archives

Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.

17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty

Join Jordan Elgrably, Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz Review and Senior Editor Lina Mounzer for readings from TMR's newest...

19 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Biswajit Sengupta

New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Yassin El-Moudden

Our senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer

Joelle M. Abi-Rached reflects on the failures of psychiatry and psychiatric language in addressing the trauma arising from...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Joelle Abi-Rached

Ali Cherri’s new show in Marseille, on view through the 4th of January 2026, deconstructs the museum from...

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Naima Morelli

A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz...

8 AUGUST 2025 • By Diran Mardirian

Following the banishment of Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian artists are starting to return and exhibit new work at home...

4 JULY 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans

A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist values and the...

20 MAY 2025 • By Jawdat Fakhreddine

Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.

16 MAY 2025 • By Jim Quilty

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Sabah Haider

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their...

20 DECEMBER 2024 • By Zahra Hankir