Arts

Digging no Deeper Than the Surface: The Princess and the Frog Enchanted by Hierarchies

Cyborgs and Sununus

Defining a Folklore of Lebanese Cinema: A Conversation with Tariq Keblaoui

Film Photography’s Resurgence in Beirut

The Halloween Handbook of Film Classics

Beirut’s Lifeline

Watermelon, Archives, and Fabulation

Is Netflix Ruining TV?

Lynn Adib: Jazz of the Levant

Graffiti Speaks: What Meets Beyond the Eye

July 22, 2022 July 22, 2022

The Commodification of Punk

by Jude Abu Haidar- Staff Writer

Edited by Maria Noujaim The 1970s marked the rise of the punk subculture. As youths were rearing mohawks and safety pin-studded uniforms to protest…

January 1, 2022 January 1, 2022

Cinema and Theatre in the Pandemic Era

by Shadi Morkos - Staff Writer

Some of the most common and unanimously enjoyed activities around the globe are watching either a film or a play in theatres. Both have…

November 23, 2021 November 23, 2021

The World of Etel Adnan

by Mohammad El Sahili- Staff Writer

Last week, famous Lebanese poetess and artist Etel Adnan passed away at the age of 96. It is hard to adequately summarize the breadth,…

February 22, 2021 February 21, 2021

Digging no Deeper Than the Surface: The Princess and the Frog Enchanted by Hierarchies

by Aciah Abdulsater - Staff Writer

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 Walt Disney production inspired by E. D. Baker’s children’s novel The Prince Frog (2002). This animated…

February 19, 2021 February 18, 2021

Cyborgs and Sununus

by Soheila Shourbaji - Contributor

Musician Ruba Shamshoum hails from Palestine and marks a poetic dreamy spot in the Arabic indie music scene. Ruba was trained in Jazz performance…

December 29, 2020 December 28, 2020

Defining a Folklore of Lebanese Cinema: A Conversation with Tariq Keblaoui

by Aciah Abdulsater - Staff Writer

“Like a phoenix, we rise from ashes,” chants a group of protestors as they are shelled with tear gas and lashed with frosty water…

November 27, 2020 November 28, 2020

Film Photography’s Resurgence in Beirut

by Sarah Helmy - Staff writer

With the birth of digital photography in 1975 came the momentary erasure of the analog world as most people turned to, what was at…

October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020

The Halloween Handbook of Film Classics

by Nour El Kaddour - Staff Writer

Many people dismiss Halloween as an unnecessarily creepy holiday, trading pumpkin carving and costume picking for a quiet autumn month spent indoors while burning…

September 21, 2020 September 20, 2020

Beirut’s Lifeline

by Christina Batrouni - Staff Writer

Lebanon hasn’t gotten a break since the start of its economic depletion last September. The country has seen the facets of capitalistic deploy and…

July 3, 2020 July 2, 2020

Watermelon, Archives, and Fabulation

by Soheila Shourbaji - Culture Editor

The article contains spoilers. The film discussed, The Watermelon Woman (1996), is available on Kanopy through the AUB libraries and on Criterion Channel. The…