Today we interview Liane Mathes Rabbath, an artist that has been living in Lebanon for over 30 years. The interview was recorded remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic as she answered our questions from Beirut. Liane is very dear to us because she is the creator of the art piece we chose to visually represent our Unlimited vision on our ... Show More
Feb 2023
Marketing Bites with Nabeelah Munshi in her pursuit of the American Dream from Pakistan to the world
For this new episode of Unlimited Features, I’m pleased to introduce you to Nabeelah Munshi, founder of Bloom Marketing Agency.Born and raised in Pakistan, Nabeelah grew up with a distinctive role model… looking up to her Disney childhood hero Hanna Montana. For the American Drea ... Show More
24m 14s
Sep 2021
Episode 3 - Camille Lattouf | Lebanese Film Festival Director
From Capernaum to The Insult, and everything in between, the Lebanese Film Festival in Australia has screened over 250 Lebanese-based films from around the world. One might say, it's a gift that keeps on giving. Lebanese Film Festival director Camille Lattouf, our special guest f ... Show More
26m 34s
May 2022
Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Akl
Mounia Akl talked about her latest film "Costa Brava, Lebanon."Mounia Akl is a director and writer from Lebanon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from ALBA, Beirut and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University, New York and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pic ... Show More
56m 59s
Feb 2022
98/ Space, Nostalgia and Retro-Futurism in Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nat Muller
This is a conversation with Nat Muller, an independent curator, writer and academic living between the UK and Amsterdam.
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1h 30m
Mar 2022
LINA MOUNZER | Writing about Lebanon | Conversations
Lina Mounzer talked about her career as a writer and translator. Lina’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, 1843, Literary Hub, and Bidoun, as well as in the anthologies Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women’s Writing (Telegram Books: 2007) and Tales of T ... Show More
25m 45s
Jun 2023
KIRSTEN SCHEID | Fantasmic Objects | Conversations
In this episode of the afikra podcast, Professor Kirsten Scheid invites us into the world of Modern Art in Lebanon, and Lebanon through the lens of Modern Art. We explore what art meant in the 1920s, before the establishment of the Lebanese state, how national imaginaries and ide ... Show More
1 h
Jul 2021
84/ Space, Fiction and Growing Up in ‘Postwar’ Lebanon (with Naji Bakhti)
This is a conversation with Naji Bakhti, author of the novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020), published by Influx Press. He is also Project Manager at SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom at the Samir Kassir Foundation.
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1h 41m