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The intellectual heart of West Beirut, built around Hamra Street and the campus of the American University of Beirut, and long the city's hub of students, writers and café culture. Hamra is bookshops, theatres, cinemas and a mix of galleries threaded through a dense, busy, cosmopolitan grid that runs down toward the seafront Corniche. It carries the memory of Beirut's mid-century golden age and remains its most bookish, argumentative quarter. The pace is urban. The culture is verbal as much as visual.
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A field guide to collecting Arab and Middle Eastern art — who buys, what it costs, why prices lag cultural significance, and where collectors are looking now.
How the Arab world went from selling its art history to the West to building the fastest-growing market for Middle Eastern art on earth — who buys, why, what it costs, and where the smart money is looking now
The letter set loose, the line woven, the arabesque the West once threw away — and the women who built modern abstraction out of all three, then got written out of it.
Abstraction is usually told as a Western invention that arrived elsewhere late. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Etel Adnan, Madiha Umar and a room of others tell it differently — often as the only woman in the movement, building modern form from the geometry, craft and calligraphy their own culture already held.
Busan committee recognises landmarks across Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and beyond, while emergency protocols highlight sites under threat
The latest World Heritage roster features contentious emergency inscriptions from conflict zones alongside cultural and natural landmarks spanning five continents.
