World Picks from the Editors: Mar 23— Apr 5
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them.
TMR's editor in chief, Jordan Elgrably, asks four Beirutis why they stay, and how they manage, enduring one crisis after another.
War and documentary photographer Maher Attar opens the Art District in Beirut to nurture other artists and beauty.
Poet and novelist Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a refugee from Aleppo who winds up on the streets of Beirut.
Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.
In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of living in isolation to a life-changing encounter.
In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that no longer exists.
Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.
Lebanon's garbage crisis inspired a futurist film but the 2020 Port Explosion made it a contemporary dystopia.
Mireille Rebeiz remembers her Tante Rose and the lore of Armenian culture-history in Lebanon, where forgetting is endemic.
Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.