EXHIBITION
Taking a course on parks, film festivals and opera houses: Where to be this weekend in the Middle East
AUCTION
‘Downton Abbey’ bids farewell with London exhibition and auction
EXHIBITION
Vartan Avakian’s treasure maps: Rumors of wealth and the Armenian curse
BEACH READ
The Bhagavad-Gita, or the art of waging an inner war
PHOTOGRAPHY
Twenty years of struggles, twenty years of wounds: Lebanon through the lens
PERSONAL ESSAY
A journey of grace and grit: My mother’s artistic awakening at 70
Sculpting Donald Trump, restoring an Alepian palace and painting Palestine with technology
FILM FESTIVAL
‘Here & elsewhere,’ a new short film festival in Beirut
There's art in our faces and architecture: Where to be this weekend in the Middle East
CULTURE
Showtime for Venice Film Festival where stars and Gaza protesters gather
ART
Samia Halaby: I was born in Jerusalem, so I am Palestinian. If you say I am American-Palestinian, it will make me angry!
INTERVIEW
A morning in Brussels with Louma Salameh at Villa Empain
ART
From Beirut to Paris, the luminous rise of Joseph G. Sassine
Historic donkey races, a bra that shook pop culture and the confessions of Ibrahim Maalouf