Lebanese architect blazes new path - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Joseph Hammond

Joseph Hammond

Mar 7, 2019

Lebanese Architect Amale Andraos seen in a picture uploaded Sept. 21, 2016. — Raymond Adams Photography/Facebook/WORKac

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RIMA ABUSHAKRA A general view shows the Sursock Museum in Beirut on June 27, 2008. Gemmayzeh boasts some of Beirut's most magnificent mansions owned by the Sursock family. The Sursock Museum was once a private home built in 1912 and now is host to an impressive permanent art collection. The house had a splendid garden that kept it apart from its closest neighbour, also another Sursock mansion. But recently the garden was razed to allow for the construction of a 25-storey apartment bl

Beirut re-brushed

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Visitors look at paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso displayed at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 27, 2019.

Lebanon’s cultural scene roars back, defying the economic meltdown

Marita Kassis

Week of art, design begins as twin fairs open in Beirut

Talia Abbas

Image courtesy of Anissa Helou.

Lebanese food author Anissa Helou looks back on varied career

Elisa Pierandrei

Elisa Pierandrei