March 13, 2026
While we are once again facing the Israeli war machine, beyond the current political debates, our immediate attention goes to the people directly affected by the war, especially in South Lebanon, the Bekaa, and the Southern Suburbs of Beirut: those who have lost their lives and those who have lost their homes. Our concern also extends to the normalization of overwhelming force as a tool of control, and to the broader acceptance of domination, violence, and oppression. In this context, art and culture are not mere refuge or consolation; they are acts of political determination. They are tools to question power, expose injustice, and refuse submission to structures that devalue human life. When war seeks to dictate what is possible, artistic practice asserts the opposite: it creates spaces for critique, solidarity, and the imagining of alternatives to domination and fear. Art insists that society can be more than the sum of the violence imposed upon it; it makes visible what those in pow...