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Jocelyne Saab: Letters from Lebanon

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Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) documented Lebanon in a way that complicates the idea of documentation even being possible. At the level of footage, Saab filmed historically valuable scenes in her “Beirut trilogy”—Beirut, Never Again (1976), Letter from Beirut (1978), and Beirut, My City (1982)—that were only available elsewhere in television news broadcasts now lost to time. In Beirut, Never Again, Saab captured children sifting through the remains of a civil war.
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This Poor Book

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This Poor Book Sasha Frere-Jones In her final collection, Fanny Howe witnesses the same world we all see. This Poor Book: A Poem, by Fanny Howe, Graywolf Press, 132 pages, $18 •   •   • “I don’t think I have written a book without a child in it,” Fanny Howe told an interviewer in 2020, five years before her passing in July of 2025. God also sat with her, next to the children.
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Lana Daher - Journal - Metrograph

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FORTY-THREE MINUTES INTO LANA DAHER’S Do You Love Me (2025), a girl in pink pants and a Tweety T-shirt says, “Film me!” to the person already filming her with a consumer-grade video camera. She squats on a white dining room chair. A three-explosion cluster answers her and the cameraman, her father, calmly explains that it was “a sonic boom,” a conclusion unavailable to Westerners not being assaulted by varieties of Israeli materiel.
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