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
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 show at Marseille’s [mac] Is Watching You](https://themarkaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Ali-Cherri-22Les-Veilleurs22-at-the-mac-Musee-dart-contemporain-de-Marseille-photo-Gregoire-Edouard-Ville-de-Marseille.jpg)
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
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
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
Cultural arts venues have reopened, but Lebanon still faces canceled international events due to the ongoing war and...
22 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Nada Ghosn
