Apr 16, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Film & Music
Reem Raidan | Staff Writer The Games Never Ended – Lebanon Turning into Panem Imagine a society where resources are scarce, survival is a daily challenge, and those on top of the hierarchy/power system are distant from the struggles of the people. This dystopian...
Apr 9, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Film & Music
“They made us strangers in our own land.” This haunting statement encompasses the story of No Other Land (2024), a powerful documentary that reveals the forced displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. It is a statement about the war itself and calls upon viewers...
Apr 9, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Film & Music
By Lea Daouk | Staff Writer You wake up, you brush your teeth, wear your clothes and get on with your day. It’s the same old boring routine but today feels different. People around you are anxious and uneasy. They seem fearful, but you don’t understand...
Jul 8, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Film & Music
Mariam Sidani | Staff Writer Ayyem il Waldaneh is a Syrian series I grew up with in the 2010’s. Its CD’s hummed in the DVD player till they were incessantly scratched and the permanent marker with Ayyem il Waldaneh episodes 1 till 6 wore off. The story’s about Abou...
Apr 8, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Film & Music
By Mariam Sidani – Staff Writer “I’ve wasted my life on it, and I’ve with it many memories. Stories, stories, stories.” Unrequited love? False promises? Is it chained to romantic love per se? I see it—as I walk on an earth irrigated with jasmine, nectar, folk...
Apr 6, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Film & Music
By Elena Hijazi | Junior Editor of Books & Literature It’s not about the journey, it’s about the destination, they say. Well, they have surely never gotten in the car with Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. Taxi Driver is an unrivalled mural for cinema and despite its...
