BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) – The urge to defend Islam’s most unifying figure, the Prophet Muhammad, wasn’t enough to bring together Lebanon’s divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The two sects, which have ...
To walk through Lebanon’s cinema history is to see a story much larger than the screen itself.By the mid-1920s, cinemas were everywhere in Beirut—and they weren’t just for popcorn and movie dates.