News arts and culture in Lebanon

Literature - Conversation between Walid Sadek and Fadi El Abdallah at Beirut Art Center iloubnan.info - 8 min ago

BEIRUT - Following the open conversation “Remains of an exhibition” held on the 3rd of February within the framework of the exhibition “Place at Last”, Walid Sadek and guest Fadi El Abdallah (poet and jurist) grapple with the thorny relation between Law and Ethic as an unavoidable problematic of life in the ruin and of a possible non-vengeful co-habitation with a past that does not pass. The conversation will take place at Beirut Art Center on Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 8pm. Read more

On Stage - "Viva la Diva" at Babel Theater iloubnan.info - 1 heure, 23 min ago

BEIRUT- Babel Theater in Hamra presents “Viva la Diva” by Hoda Barakat with Randa Asmar from March 10 to March 18 of 2010 at 8:30pm. For more info call: 01 381 290 or Fida Barakat : 03 019 878 Booking at Virgin Megastore Read more

Music - Arabic music meets Polish literature at Unesco Palace (iloubnan.info - March 20, 2010, 10h00)

BEIRUT- Within the framework of “Beirut World Book Capital 2009” activities, Polish author Stanisław Strasburger in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and the Polish Embassy in Beirut, present “Arabic music... Read more

Cinema - The documentary "12 angry Lebanese" awarded at the DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival (iloubnan.info - March 18, 2010, 18h23)

It was in 2008 when actress/director Zeina Daccache could have access to one of Lebanon's prisons, Roumieh prison, to carry out her project: involve inmates as actors in a play titled "12 angry Lebanese” in art therapy through drama (or... Read more

On Stage - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurates Art Dubai (iloubnan.info - March 18, 2010, 13h45)

BEIRUT- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, has officially opened yesterday Art Dubai, Middle East's best attended contemporary art event for its fourth edition. His Highness has toured the works on... Read more

On Stage - “Travelling Book” by Denise Marounay at the St Jude Center (iloubnan.info - March 18, 2010, 12h10)

BEIRUT- Within the framework of the “Beirut World Book Capital 2009” Denise Marounay organizes on Friday March 19, 2010 plays that aim at bringing together audience to literature. Subjects of the plays will be chosen out of the... Read more

Painting - “Syrian fine art painters” exhibition at the Unesco Palace (iloubnan.info - March 17, 2010, 12h30)

BEIRUT- Within the framework of the “Beirut World Book Capital 2009” activities, the fine art showroom “As-Sayyed” organizes “Syrian fine art painters” paintings and books exhibition at the Unesco Palace from... Read more

Literature - Reviewing John Esposito's book, The Future of Islam (CGNews - March 17, 2010, 10h45)

Reviewing John Esposito's book, The Future of Islam, Brooklyn-based writer Youssef Chouhoud highlights the author's views of current challenges faced by Muslims in an increasingly globalised world. Source: Muslim Matters, 12 March 2010,... Read more

Literature - The 11th Storytelling and Monodrama International Festival at Monot Theater (iloubnan.info - March 16, 2010, 18h15)

As part of Beirut World Book Capital 2009 activities and collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Monot Theater organizes the International Festival of Storytelling and monodrama from March 16 to March 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm within the cellar of the... Read more

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