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
As Beirut anticipates a military invasion, MK Harb's short story about two friends sharing a slice of cake...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By MK Harb
Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan is a jury member of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and the only Arab woman...
30 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
