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
Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Tom Young's art raises important questions about studying images and the lasting impact of colonialism in the Arab...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Ziad Suidan
A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
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
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
The essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Dana El Saleh
True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina...
5 JULY 2024 • By Fawzi Zabyan
A community theatre company working in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine empowers women who often are not professional actors.
21 JUNE 2024 • By Victoria Lupton
Farah-Silvana Kanan questions whether, in this novel, the Franco-Lebanese master is at the height of his powers, or...
14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Al Jadid editor Elie Chalala finds that Lebanese intellectuals’ defense of expat director Wadji Mouawad contrasts with state...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Elie Chalala
An original short play by playwright and theatre maker Mona Mansour: "a short, dark confession in a time...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Mona Mansour
