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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

Senior Correspondent
London
Lemma Shehadi covers stories of Middle East interest in the UK. She has reported from the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. She won The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell Prize for foreign journalism to write a series on the Yazidis of Iraq and the Caucasus in 2019. She was a One World Media Fellow 2022, looking at the impact of wildfires and reforestation in the marginalized north of Lebanon.
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A photo of members of the Amman International Film Festival team. The festival runs until Tuesday, August 31. Courtesy of Amman International Film Festival
Amman International Film Festival gears up for its second year

The event focuses on the work of first-time filmmakers from the region

FilmAugust 22, 2021
Musee Henry in Beirut is a 19th-century heritage home converted into a museum
New museum sheds light on Beirut's demolished heritage homes

Henry Loussian's house-museum displays thousands of objects salvaged from the past

ArtAugust 05, 2021
Dutch filmmaker and former Beirut correspondent Marcel van der Steen documents the stories of a number of Beirut residents in 'The Sound of Broken Glass'. Marcel van der Steen
New documentary explores the lives of Beirutis in the wake of blast

Dutch filmmaker Marcel van der Steen tells the devastating story of some of the city's residents in a hard-hitting documentary

FilmAugust 04, 2021
Sarah Beydoun is the Lebanese designer behind the brand Sarah's Bag. Courtesy Sarah Beydoun
'I feel I’m needed': Why designer Sarah Beydoun plans to stay in Beirut

In the last of a series of four interviews with Lebanese creatives, the designer behind Sarah's Bag reveals how she continues to be inspired by the city

FashionAugust 03, 2021
Lebanese artist Abed Al Kadiri moved from Beirut to Paris after the blast. Courtesy the artist
How artist Abed Al Kadiri found solace in Paris after Beirut explosion

As part of a series of four interviews with Lebanese creatives, the artist opens up about dealing with trauma and leaving a city he is connected to

ArtAugust 01, 2021
Joumana Asseily is founder of gallery Marfa Projects. The project space was heavily destroyed by the Beirut blast. Marfa Projects
Gallerist Joumana Asseily says she's 'living day by day' one year after Beirut explosion

As part of a series of four interviews with creatives in Beirut, Asseily talks about rebuilding her gallery space amid the destruction

ArtJuly 30, 2021
A 25-metre steel sculpture called 'The Gesture', by Lebanese artist Nadim Karam, is made from debris recovered from the aftermath of the explosion at Beirut port on August 4. AFP
'The Gesture': new Beirut sculpture to honour victims of port explosion

The response to the work, created by Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam, has been mixed

ArtJuly 29, 2021
The Sursock Museum, which was heavily damaged by the Beirut blast, has partially reopened and its activities resumed on site. Courtesy Sursock Museum
Beirut's Sursock Museum director on city's appetite for culture

As part of a series of four interviews with creatives in Beirut, Zeina Arida explains the challenges her institution faces today

ArtJuly 28, 2021
'The Desert' from Dia Mrad's photo series, which was on show at the Arthaus Beirut hotel. Courtesy of the artist
How Dia Mrad captured Beirut's tragedy through images absent of human life

The photographer, who shot ruins of historic houses and the site of the August 4 port blast, reveals why it was important to document them

ArtJuly 13, 2021
Galerie Tanit has reopened with a new show called Togetherness showcasing the work of local artists. The gallery had been severely damaged during the Beirut blast on August 4 last year. Dimitri Nassar, Courtesy of Galerie Tanit
Beirut gallery hit by the August 4 blast reopens with new show

Galerie Tanit is showcasing the work of local Lebanese artists under the theme of togetherness

ArtJuly 05, 2021
Minjara's Ali Boksmati carves patterns for the moucharabiya on Minjara's CNC machine, the only one in Tripoli. Photo: Ahmad Zaatiti
How historic carpenters of Tripoli are carving a future for traditional woodwork

An NGO is connecting craftsmen with designers to help keep their businesses alive

ArtJune 27, 2021
Painted ceiling panels by Mohammed Melehi and wood claustra by Mohammed Chabaa in the Roses du Dades Hotel, 2016. Emma Chubb-Maud Houssais / Courtesy Faraoui & de Mazières studio. Patrice and Pauline de Mazières archives
Morocco's modern heritage at risk from upcoming sale, say artists' heirs

A series of work made for the Roses du Dades hotel will be sold at an auction on Sunday

ArtMay 27, 2021
Director Burhan Qurbani often focuses on issues of migration and identity in his work. Reuters
Burhan Qurbani's new film 'isn't about refugees, it's about outsiders'

The filmmaker's third feature film, which will premiere in Berlin this week, is a contemporary adaptation of Alfred Doblin's seminal novel

FilmFebruary 24, 2020
Georgina Rizk during her beauty pageant days. Courtesy Bill Howard / ANL / Shutterstock
The untold love story of 1971 Miss Universe Georgina Rizk

We discover how artist Alfred Tarazi is retelling the romance of the Lebanese beauty queen and Ali Hassan Salameh, a notorious figure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation

ArtJuly 15, 2019

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