The sonically bored of greater beirut should keep an ear out for sounds from the edge, courtesy of #Irtijal23: today.lorientlejour.com/article/133384…

This week in #CultureInATimeofCrisis: Rayyane Tabet chats with Jim Quilty about 'The Return,' his new show at Beirut's Sfeir-Semler gallery, and how objects mean: today.lorientlejour.com/article/133703…

Reem Shadid has curated ‘A Return of the Sun,’ a kick-ass debut show Beirut Art Center. There’s some excellent work on show, thoughtfully presented. You can find a taste of it here: today.lorientlejour.com/article/133851…

In an interesting stellar alignment, Metro al-Madina and Sursuq museum re-opened to the public on the same day. There’s something to be said for serendipity: today.lorientlejour.com/article/133977…

Leos Carax in Beirut: A bit like light glinting off broken glass: today.lorientlejour.com/article/134119…

L’Orient Today sits down with Stephen Gerard Kelly to discuss the five-year history behind his doc feature collaboration with Garry Keane ‘In the Shadow of Beirut,’ long listed for Oscars in two categories: today.lorientlejour.com/article/136066…. STEPHEN GERARD KELLY @intheshadowofbeirut

In the run-up to her show at the Venice Biennale, Mounira Al Solh talks with this journalist about learning to be an artist, starting with how her mother taught her to sew so she could sleep through the nocturnal noise of Lebanon’s civil war: today.lorientlejour.com/article/136889…

Formidable jazz pianist and composer tarek yamani | طارق يمني reflects upon Aks’ser, Tom and Jerry, and his approach to using jazz modalities to interpret Arabic melodies: today.lorientlejour.com/article/137053….

Looking back upon an evening when the work of artists Marwan Rechmaoui, Jalal Toufic and Yara al-Asmar – Beirut habitués all – mingled nicely at Beirut Art Center: today.lorientlejour.com/article/137131…

As the Jocelyne Saab Association prepares a series of digital film restoration workshops in Beirut, president Mathilde Rouxel reflects on the filmmaker’s practice, archive,and legacy: today.lorientlejour.com/article/137205….

On a tour of UMAM’s unique archive from the late-great Baalbeck Studios production company, Monika Borgmann took L’Orient Today her concern is with luring in researchers and artists to help ‘bring it back to life, so it can have an impact today’: today.lorientlejour.com/article/141147…

During his recent return to Beirut, Raed Yassin sat down to discuss the tumultuous few years that have fuelled the diverse series of works sampled in Hell Between My Teeth, Phantom in My Heart, and Never-Ending Hum, his new solo at Beirut Art Center: today.lorientlejour.com/article/141306…

For International Archives Week (5-6 June), several Beirut institutions will open their doors to the public. The Arab Image Foundation will give tours of its new Qantari space and conduct a workshop on conservation of paper archives: today.lorientlejour.com/article/141476…

‘The most important thing is that it become an occasion to transform something symbolic into action,’ Jana Traboulsi جنى طرابلسي says of two shows at Masrah al-Madina, featuring her and mazen kerbaj’s work, curated by Mona Hallak, Mayssa Jallad and Lina Ghaibeh: today.lorientlejour.com/article/141652…