Lana Daher’s ‘Do You Love Me’ Turns Disorientation Into a Closed Circuit
Lana Daher’s documentary Do You Love Me makes Lebanon’s cycles of crisis palpable, but its deliberate disorientation obscures the political distinctions it seeks to recover.
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Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Recall Making ‘Memory Box’
Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige discuss making Memory Box and reactivating the past through adolescent eyes.
Lebanese Director Mounia Akl on Expressing Her Truth with ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’
Lebanese director Mounia Akl talks about resistance through making and participating in art and her feature debut, Costa Brava, Lebanon.
‘Beirut 2020’ Portends What Awaits America
Charif Majdalani’s Beirut 2020 warns that unwillingness to enforce rules and due process lies at the heart of the problems plaguing both Lebanon and America.
‘Spring Rain’ Is a Superb Graphic Memoir of the Vagaries of Mind and Memory
Andy Warner's style of narrative in Spring Rain is evocative of those visual puzzles that require the viewer to look beyond the image in front of them, letting their eyes relax into an indirect gaze, in order for the hidden picture to reveal itself.
Arab-American Songwriter Naima Shalhoub Sings of “Two (Rivers in the Desert)” (premiere)
Naima Shalhoub finds healing waters in her new video for the single "Two (Rivers in the Desert)".
Ziad Rahbani’s Disco Masterpiece, “Abu Ali”, Finally Gets a Vinyl Re-Issue
Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani's disco masterpiece "Abu Ali" is well deserving of its Record Store Day reissue.
Yasmine Hamdan: Ya Nass
Her narrators miss their lovers, they're sad about them, they're filled with longing.
Samuel Maoz’s ‘Lebanon’ Challenges the Notion of the War Machine
It is common to believe that the army and war work to turn humans into machines. Lebanon‘s main message, though, runs contrary to that attitude.