In Lebanon, vintage film posters question Western cliches
Abboudi Abu Jawdeh is exhibiting vintage film posters that show off a lost art, but also offer insight into decades of Western cliches of the Arab world.
Lebanon’s ‘Tower of Bitterness’ transformed into colorful public installation art
Burj el Murr, also known as the “Tower of Bitterness”, is an abandoned and unfinished 40-story tower in Beirut. Its construction started around 1974, one year before the Lebanese Civil War began—a violent period in the country’s history that lasted for 15 years. Originally intended to be a hotel or an office space, the tower […]