How time and lies make true stories disappear
BEIRUT: In Beirut, one man creates a puzzle of the city’s past in order to tell some painful stories left untold but not forgotten.
Lebanon
Understanding Hizbollah
Faith and Resistance argues that religion and rational thought are compatible.
INTERVIEW: A Day in Aleppo
How desperate it must seem, trying – like film directors frequently do – to spur the world into action to end the war in Syria. We have caught up with one of the people who are fighting this battle.
DEFIANCE IS PRESENT
Özge Calafato looks at some of the most compelling recent documentary works from the Arab World.
SHEFFIElD Doc/FEST 2011: A good and faithful Muslim
Making and exhibiting independent documentary in the Arab world is a challenge in several distinct ways. Pamela Cohn writes about two outstanding films from the Sheffield festival. Are they calling for a more humanist, modern approach to being a faithful Muslim?