Cinema Resurrection Marks South Lebanon Arts Revival

Banging drums, decked in costume, striding on stilts: they all burst out into the hot, sweaty Lebanese night and swapped the subterranean confines of the cinema for the streets of Nabatieh. Behind, them a trail of young and old danced and sang, their efforts drawing the puzzled stares of those just passing by.  In Lebanon’s most southern district, a place festooned with the banners of the powerful Shi’ite militia Hezbollah and partly rebuilt in the wake of the 2006 war with...

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