Kim Chakanetsa talks to two Beirut-based creatives who made it their mission to tell women’s stories.
Joana Hadjithomas is a Lebanese artist and director. Her work has been exposed at the Victoria and Albert museum in London and at the Guggenheim in New York. Her latest movie, Memory Box, inspired by her own experience of being a teenager in Lebanon durin ... Show More
Nov 2022
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
Shahidha Bari looks at the voices of women emerging from new writing in novels, plays and histories. Zenobia, Mavia, and Khadijah are Arabian queens and noblewomen who feature in the new book by Emran Iqbal El-Badawi which looks at the way female rulers of Arabia were crucial in ... Show More
44m 52s
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
Jun 2020
Femmes et féminismes : des histoires en tout genres
Dans l’imaginaire collectif, la France aurait consacré sur son territoire la pleine l’égalité entre les genres, et les pays musulmans seraient des espaces oppressifs où règnent de façon continue le sexisme et l’homophobie. Evidemment, les rapports femmes-hommes au Maghreb et au M ... Show More
36m 39s
Dec 2022
ReShape Beauty Stereotypes | With Rana Alamuddin, Actress, Founder of Bayneh w Baynek & Leader of #IForgiveMyself Movement
“There’s nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself” - Hannah Gadbsy. With this quote as a life motto, this episode’s guest takes us through her journey redefining beauty while exploring new dimensions of self-expression, and introduces us into the space she’s c ... Show More
1h 6m
Mar 2024
Can Beirut's Haunted Buildings Help It Heal From Its Civil War? | Mayssa Jallad
In this episode of Quartertones, musician, architect and urban researcher Mayssa Jallad joins us in the afikra studio in Beirut to talk about her latest, deeply researched work “Marjaa: Battle of the Hotels”. The album brings together her passion for music and her background in u ... Show More
1h 10m
Oct 2022
Ep 2 - Netflix, Boundaries and Film in the Arab world
In this episode I explore the world of film in the Arab world and talk to directors and producers who are pushing the boundaries. I speak to Jordan’s Tima Shomali, director of an Arabic language original Netflix series Al Rawabi School for Girls, a huge hit about teenage girls an ... Show More
46m 20s