Cinematheque Beirut gives Lebanon’s film community a space to thrive

An archive in the capital preserves not just films but memory, offering hope and inspiration for a younger generation of filmmakers

Ibrahim Tutunji

Awakening Memories

[caption id="attachment_55241542" align="alignnone" width="620"] Scanograms #1, Image 09, Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948. (DOR GUEZ/THE MOSAIC ROOMS)[…

Amy Assad

In Dreams and Nightmares

[caption id="attachment_55241496" align="alignnone" width="620"] Safwan Dahoul. CELIA TOPPING[/caption]Safwan Dahoul’s distinctive canvases, characterized by elegant curvature of line and the…

Celia Topping

Breaking the Armenian Taboo

[caption id="attachment_55241263" align="alignnone" width="620"] Armenian Muslim Hidir Boztas in his yard on April 23, 2013 in the Turkish village of Mazgirt in Tunceli province. For nearly a century…

Barçin Yinanç

Persia and the Mughals

[caption id="attachment_55240620" align="alignnone" width="620"] An elephant and rider trampling a tiger by Mir Kalan, part of the British Library Mughal India Exhibition. BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD[…

Vedica Kant

A Tale of Two Poets

[caption id="attachment_55241219" align="alignnone" width="620"] Rachida Madani and Marilyn Hacker. TAM HUSSEIN[/caption]Multiculturalism has lately taken a bit of a thrashing from the political and…

Tam Hussein

A Crime against Human History

[caption id="attachment_55241136" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A general view, seen through a bridge barrier, shows the Cairo skyline and the Nile river on December 9, 2012. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP…

Rawan Ezzat

Buried Treasures

[caption id="attachment_55241106" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saloua Raouda Choucair self portrait, 1943. SALOUA RAOUDA CHOUCAIR FOUNDATION.[/caption]The four small rooms that hold the Saloua…

Nicholas Blincoe

Iranian Peacemakers

[caption id="attachment_55241086" align="alignnone" width="620"] Untitled 2009-2013. AHMED MORSHEDLOO/TARA AGHDASHLOO[/caption]The international community does not really expect to read the words …

Tara Aghdashloo

The Other Shore

[caption id="attachment_55241036" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man walks in the Sahara desert that links north and southern Africa. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]Some 400 years ago,…

Younes Hassar

Yearning for a Lost Beauty

[caption id="attachment_55240891" align="alignnone" width="620"] George Bahgory at the opening of his exhibition. ATI METWALY.[/caption]Standing at the crossroads between expressionism, surrealism…

Ati Metwaly