Film
Falafel — Michel Kammoun (2006)
Beirut has been the subject of countless films about war, but Michel Kammoun’s Falafel is about what comes after —…
Region: Levant
Music
Yasmine Hamdan: Soapkills and the Beirut Underground
Before Jim Jarmusch cast her in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), before her solo albums drew critical acclaim from New…
Interview
Amin Maalouf on Identity, Language, and the Arab-European Divide
Amin Maalouf writes about identity the way a cartographer draws coastlines — aware that every border is an approximation, that…