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May 2019

In its 10th edition, the biennial Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya took place from March 29 to April 6, 2019. The film festival has showcased, fostered, and defended Arab films made and conceived independently, however vague a definition that might be, for the past twenty years. Middle Eastern cinema has historically struggled on two fronts: the domestic one, in the fight against censorship; and the far more insidious international one. In the artistic flight from poor or inexistent funding and distribution circuits that favor commercial cinema (from either Egypt or the US), Arab filmmakers in many cases have had to rely

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For Connor James Nye, 3 months oldYou smile at everyone. When lifted, toted,you hold ((onto)) shoulder or sleeve,gazing curiously, each room or face.Irish sheep, stuffed puppy, your daddy’s clown.Dwelling in a tender current of care,you know nothing ((details of the footnote)) of cruelties people doto one another. Tiled ceilings, arching rooms. The villages of Palestinecould still be neatly terraced in your brain.When you smile, we might all be wishing each other well.When you startle at a loud sound,await the power of softnessto settle you down. There is no other power in your world.Hunger, interest, kicking, joy

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