25. LEBANON - Politics can play a part; it do...

Farrah speaks to Dr. Patrick E. McGovern, the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. He's the author of many books including Ancient Wine: The Search for th ...  Show more

After a long hiatus, the podcast returns with the first episode of the long-awaited Season 3. This time, host Farrah Berrou is the interviewee and fellow writer, historian, and Twitter friend, N.A. Mansour, is the interviewer. They discuss the beginnings, the shifts, and the moti ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 2:22 The last three years 16:33 Tourism & narrative 24:27 Lebanon's role 32:56 Consequential to stability 37:24 Expression 42:31 Branding 48:00 Cosmopolitanism 56:39 Q&A 1:25:38 History of wine in the region We're with Michael Karam for Episode 363 of The Beirut Banyan ...  Show more

Après la Palestine et l’Algérie, le Festival propose un focus sur le Liban et choisit comme marraine, aux côtés du parrain d’honneur Costa Gavras, la réalisatrice, scénariste et artiste plasticienne franco-libanaise Chloé Mazlo. Si cette 12ème édition s’est ouverte avec la projec ...  Show more

This is a conversation with Naji Bakhti, author of the novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020), published by ...

This is a repost of an episode I did with Dr Andrew Arsan, British-Lebanese scholar and author of the book Lebanon: A Country in Fragments, and which was originally released on the Hummus For Thought podcast. I'm releasing it here as an introduction to a series of upc ...