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The slap

Visual Sunday

Culture Tehran

Sarcastic, irreverent, The Slap, by Iranian director Ehsan Amani, uses codes from silent film to make fun of its characters and our preconceptions.

Painting Beirut’s stairs

Visual Sunday

CultureUrban change Beirut

Dizhayners, armed with rainbowcoloured paint and brushes, have set out to beautify Beirut’s crumbling and half-hidden stairs

Mixed feelings

On "race" and Lebanon

Rights & dissentSociety Beirut

We meet Nisreen Kaj, of mixed Nigerian-Lebanese descent, and talk about racism and perceptions of otherness in Lebanon.

Remnants of a lost

Visual Sunday

Society Beirut Damascus

Rare enlargements of small prints and contact sheets of photos taken in Lebanon and Syria’s Palestinian refugee camps in 1981.

I asked four friends

to remember Ramadan with me

Society Amman

Yazan Kopti asked his friends Nadya, Raja, Koray and Nasser to share their memories about Ramadan.

Safar Barlik

A new musical project

Culture Beirut

A new musical project from Beirut, a first EP just released. Safar Barlik remains quite mysterious with its electro beat and bittersweet melodies.

Un été à Alger

Culture Algiers

L’Algérie, cette année, a eu 50 ans, et Lamine Ammar-Khodja fait le pari de raconter cette date historique sous forme de chroniques filmées à la première personne

Lamine Ammar-Khodja’s Algerian chronicles

Culture Algiers

This year, Algeria turned 50. Algerian filmmaker Lamine Ammar-Khodja aims at telling this historical moment through a series of first-person chronicles.

MAMNOU3!

Meet the Lebanese Censorship Bureau

Rights & dissent Beirut

MAMNOU3! – “forbidden” in Arabic – is also the title of a Lebanese web-series about the day-to-day inner workings of the country’s Censorship Bureau

10453 Magic

Society Beirut

Investigating Lebanon’s attitude towards trash, through a play about a 5 metres high pile of discarded metals, plastics & wood, covered in heaps of trash.