Lebanon Archives

From classic noir to chilling psychological thriller, these ten films encapsulate the cinematographic experience of NOIR.

5 DECEMBER 2025 • By TMR

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

21 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour

Thinking about icons past and present, Amal Ghandour remembers Egypt's "Star of the East" on the 50th anniversary...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour

A lonely Lebanese writer welcomes a poor woman into his home, unwittingly realizing that it is she who...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By MK Harb

Maysaa Alajjan on a homeland that never accepted her, and another that she never knew.

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Maysaa Alajjan

Forbidden or taboo love? In a world where we live free, how could such stymied conventions continue to...

24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer

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

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

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Naima Morelli

As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.

1 AUGUST 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on...

13 JUNE 2025 • By Jim Quilty

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the...

30 MAY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould