Art
Signs and Banners From the 2019 Protests in Downtown Beirut
Slogans and images have appeared all over downtown Beirut since around-the-clock protests started on Thursday, October 17.
Beirut
Art
An Artist's Homage to Family Histories and Feminism in Beirut
Mounira al-Solh resists homogenizing narratives about Arab women in her work's specificity and its rejection of expected characters or sensationalized accounts.
Art
Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut
Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.
Art
A Surreal Landscape Transforms the Garbage Scattered in Beirut’s Streets
This is an imaginary landscape crafted by humans, but the urban dweller will recognize it as scarily quotidian.
Books
Examining the Suspended Present of Beirut's Cultural Geography
Judith Naeff argues that Beirut exists in a prolonged state of “protracted ‘presentness’ with limited access to past and future” — specifically, a prolonged state of precarity.
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Trump-Shaped Inflatable Tank Roams the Streets of Beirut
Anonymous Syrian Artist SAINT HOAX’s Instagram performance launches in the wake of his MonuMental exhibition opening.
In Brief
More Than 400 Roman-Era Columns Lie Abandoned on Beirut’s Waterfront
Lebanon's General Directorate of Antiquities has no inventory of the ancient archaeological fragments and isn't sure what to do with them.
Art
Reading the Streets of Beirut
There are few places I love in this world as much as Beirut.
Art
Why Eternity Is so Precarious
BEIRUT — Shortly after the opening of their most recent exhibition, I Must First Apologize in Nice, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige returned home to Beirut to deliver their “An Additional Continent” lecture at Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Ar
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Beirut's Oldest Synagogue Getting Restored
Al-Jazeera reports [http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries/middleeast/2010113011444886787.html] that the once vibrant center of Jewish life in Beirut, Lebanon, and the city's largest and oldest surving synagogue, Magen Abraham is being restored by private donations, including from local Muslim