The growth of social media has changed the way people experience and share parts of their lives, from instagramming each meal to finding a relationship via an app. Art is…
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“I was born in 1976, that means I died in 1976. In Beirut, red shoes, white blouse, blue skirt fell to the street.” This is the first memory I have of my…
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Once again this November, the Lebanese autumn sun bathes the front of the Barakat Building in a warm, sleepy glow that accentuates its imperfections and old wounds just as they…
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A visit to an art gallery can be a fascinating journey where one gets to discover and explore through each piece of work an intriguing array of nuanced feelings and…
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After 65 shows in two theaters in front of a total of 14,500 audience members, the adaptation of David Ives’ play “Venus in Fur” by Lina Khoury and Gabriel Yammine,…
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Roger Moukarzel was 12 years old when he took his first photograph, on a camera borrowed from his older brother. By 15, he was photographing the violence and devastation wrought…
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I think Nadim Karam is as surprised as I am when our conversation about art, architecture and the links between them morphs seamlessly into the story of how he once…
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Executive caught up with Tarek Mitri weeks after his appointment as the director of Issam Fares Institute (IFI) at the American University of Beirut. Sitting in his office in IFI,…
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Nowhere is the creative impulse more impactful than in our public spaces, and nowhere is there a greater need and opportunity to define cultural coexistence than in the process of…
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Beirut’s burgeoning cityscape of cultural and artistic endeavors may have taken a commercial downturn in 2014 compared to previous years. This, however, did not deter the city’s community of gallerists,…