Beirut Archives

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 Marseille show, on view until January 4, 2026, deconstructs the museum from the inside out.

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

Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Katie Logan

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

22 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Nada Ghosn

Roger Assaf's poetic script for Jocelyne Saab's 1982 film about the siege of Beirut puts one in mind...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Roger Assaf

Letters from a displaced Lebanese poet today to civil war-era actor-director Roger Assaf evoke Beirut in 1982, 2006...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Zeina Hashem Beck