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The incident reflected a deep frustration in Lebanon over an ever-worsening economic crisis.

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Following in the footsteps of the major Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab, the Tabadoul Orchestra brings together musical styles from all over the world. The ensemble was founded by musicians from Cologne, Egypt and Turkey. By Martina Sabra

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A Lebanese man entered a bank in Beirut armed with a can of gasoline and what appeared to be a shotgun demanding access to his $210,000 in savings.

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THE SET OF BASSEM SAAD’S assured, playful, and provocative video Congress of Idling Persons, 2021, is strewn with the accoutrements of pandemic and protest: a tent, a table covered with onions, a spirometer (for testing lung capacity), bottles of medicine that a young woman compulsively cracks open and closes. Some of the objects are for aiding a patient’s recovery from illness, others for enduring protracted demonstrations or mitigating the effects of tear gas. Shot in part inside the theat...

Play Track Bandcamp / Buy On the night of October 17, 2019, Lebanon’s citizens took to the streets to protest widespread corruption, government ineptitude, and crushing austerity measures. “We get nothing we pay for,” a protestor told a reporter. “Our basic needs are not met. Enough! We’re sick of this.” In a nonsectarian display of popular solidarity, more than a million people took part. The atmosphere was hopeful and determined, despite police batons and v...