German photographer Julius Matuschik documented the last remaining movie theatres in Palestine in his “Cinema Filistin” series.

The Beirut exhibit “Nine Shades of Black” featured sculptures, photos and paintings by nine exhibiting artists from Syria, Lebanon, the US and Switzerland.

Je pense que l’art, même dans sa formation la plus effective, reste une promesse à venir, une promesse utopique. Mais à ce moment là, l’utopie était là, elle flirtait avec l’actuel, l’art et la politique étaient devancées par le présent.

I think that art, even at its most effective, is a but promise. A utopian promise. When the revolution happened, utopia was there, flirting with the actual.

When the war began, Maria and her friend Mariam, migrant workers from the Philippines, chose to stay in Libya and work at one of Misrata’s hospitals.

As the battlefield fighting ended, artist Ali Al-Wakwak went out to collect rusty weapons and guns, transforming them to art about Libya’s revolution.

A piercing evocation of the civil war, The Butcher is a painting by Houssam Bokeili that shows a butcher shop in which human bodies have replaced dead meat.

The Papergirl project aims at performing street art in new and innovative ways. After expanding in several countries, It just reached Istanbul.

Leur dernier coup de maître de l’ONG Umam/Le Hangar est d’avoir retrouvé le bus de la guerre civile et l’avoir exposé dans leur hangar

In just six years of existence, the Lebanese NGO UMAM D&R/The Hangar has succeeded in making the southern Beirut suburb Haret Hreik an epicentre of cultural life in Lebanon. Not content with having established the country’s first archive with “essential materials from Lebanon’s past,” UMAM’s founders, Lokman Slim and Monika Borgmann, regularly hold exhibitions which […]