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This Film Festival is Taking SWANA Cinema from Beirut to Rome for Its Second Edition
Half film festival, half fundraiser, Here & Elsewhere returns for its second year in Beirut and Rome with a programme built around memory
A Language Of Image: From Manuscripts To Meta-Algorithms
From Islamic manuscripts to Blender renders, the image of the Arabic language has always been built from overlapping histories and references. The designers pushing it forward today are proving that visual history is most useful when it becomes a tool for invention rather than nostalgia, and that the archive is not a repository of finished answers
Tripoli’s Rumman Music Festival Returns for a Fifth Edition
Running 4 and 5 September, the festival brings SANAM, EMSALLAM, Ma-Beyn, and Tripoli's own BILEL to the city's revived Art Deco cinema
Meet the Initiatives Rethinking Syrian Craft
MSN3 DMSHQ and Syrian Crafts Council are working to rebuild what was lost before it disappears for good
Duette Studio One-Ups Itself with Duette+
The creative duo introduce a cultural clubhouse to Dubai Mall
Following Traces: Anthony Bourdain, Food, and the Politics of Travelling with Care
Anthony Bourdain arrived in Beirut in 2006 to film a food show. Two days later, Israel bombed the city. The footage, and the Emmy nomination that followed, say something uncomfortable about the Western appetite for Arab tragedy on television. On food, travel, and the difference between loving a place and consuming it
The Only Producer Who’s Ever Gotten Fairuz’s Blessing
Kanye did it. Drake did it. Madonna got sued $2.5 million for it. Only one producer has ever sampled Fairuz completely legally, and he's telling the whole story