In one image, a volunteer kisses two kittens rescued from the rubble of another Israeli airstrike in Beirut. His face is ...

Now in its fourth year, the Beirut Art Center’s annual exhibition of emerging artists has come to define itself by what it is not. It is not representative of contemporary art in or from Lebanon.

The 26-year-old worked for years as a club photographer in this venue, the Grand Factory in Beirut. Then the war started, and the clubs closed., The escalation in the Israeli assault across ...