NICOSIA: Cypriot singer Alexia Vassiliou still remembers the sound of the sirens wailing eerily over her house when she was just a child to warn of the...
BEIRUT: Photography in Lebanon has had an impressive few years, and 2019 has been a particular highlight. Now, after almost two months of protests and a...
BEIRUT: “I don’t want to document a situation. I have nothing to say,” Paola Yacoub remarks.“No,” she quickly adds. “I have maybe something to say about a...
BEIRUT: Beirut’s iconic Egg building was surrounded by construction hoarding until a month ago. Then protesters started to rip down the boards to use for...
PARIS: The Maison Europeenne de la Photographie is hosting a retrospective of work by Hassan Hajjaj, dubbed “the Andy Warhol of Marrakech.” The...
PARIS: The 23rd edition of the Paris Photo fair was held Nov. 7-10 at the city’s Grand Palais. The event is a unique occasion to see a staggering number of...
PARIS: Lebanon is the focus of the third biennial of photography in the contemporary Arab world, with “Lebanon - Realities and Fictions” showing at Paris’...
BEIRUT: Starting next week, several Lebanese photographers will take part in the “Regards Croises” exhibition, at the 19th edition of the Phot’Aix festival in...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s uprising has acted as a cauldron for artistic production, inspiring artists to contribute across a range of media, from murals to...
BEIRUT: Alongside the many men, women and children taking photos at the protests over the past week, several Lebanese photographers who don’t define...
BEIRUT/BEIT CHEBAB: Sir Don McCullin needs little introduction. Over a 50-year period torn by conflict - including in Cyprus, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and...
BEIRUT/SIDON: First editions usually have teething problems. Announced just four months ago, the inaugural Beirut Image Festival laid out ambitious goals of...
BEIRUT: “When I do something like this, one of the criticisms I receive is something like, ‘You want to imitate the West. You want to implement...
BEIRUT: The inaugural edition of the Beirut Image Festival starts Wednesday, ushering in a month of photography exhibitions in the Lebanese capital and other...
BEIRUT: Iraq has hosted an exhibition of World Press Photo images for the first time this year, after being the dramatic subject of the annual competition’s...
BEITEDDINE / BEIRUT: “These photos must be from the late 1800s or early 1900s,” you think, glancing at the black-and-white pictures of men, women...
BEITEDDINE/BEIRUT: Images of daily life in Syria spanning more than two decades cover the walls of a vaulted hall at the Beiteddine Palace. “It’s...
BEIRUT: A hazy, almost impressionistic image of a horizon. Charcoal sketches of bottles and flowers. Tiny disembodied bird legs, all perched in a row....
BEIRUT: “The most absurd assignment was given to me by the director of the Sygma agency,” photographer Fouad Elkoury recalls, “who was happy...
BEIRUT: The 50th edition of the Rencontres de la photographie, one of the biggest photography festivals on the world calendar, kicks off Monday in Arles,...
BEIRUT: “When they came back and told me we will exhibit in the hammam [“Turkish bath”], I was not sure,” Joana Hadjithomas said by...
BEIRUT: For his Beirut solo, “Sand Comes Through the Window,” Taysir Batniji had to redo pieces from one of his major series from scratch....
BEIRUT: “The internet is catastrophic,” Marc Mouarkech mutters, waiting for a webpage to load. Bandwidth is a big deal for the Arab Image Foundation director,...
BEIRUT: Since PhotoMed Liban’s last edition two years ago, Lebanon has lacked a dedicated photography festival. With news of the Beirut Image Festival,...
BEIRUT: As a venue for an exhibition of photographs from Lebanon’s Civil War, Beit Beirut makes a poignant host. Placing almost 90 black-and-white...