Mia Sherry The long journey home in Nadine Labaki’s thematic trilogy Tackling trauma, identity and nationality through religion and tradition, Nadine Labaki’s thematic trilogy— Caramel (2007), Where Do We Go Now? (2011) and Capernaum (2018)— situates and contextualises these issues within the centrepiece of modern life: the home. ‘Home’ in Labaki’s films extends beyond the…
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The Egg
The Egg stands in the heart of Martyrs’ Square, Beirut. It looks incongruous, almost like a big, ugly concrete whale, supplanted amidst the buzz and chaos of Lebanon’s capital city. Originally designed as a cinema, The Egg was supposed to be the crowing glory of architect Joseph Philippe Karam’s “Beirut City Centre” shopping centre and office space. Unfortunately, its construction was halted by the Lebanese Civil War and for decades it lay derelict.
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Structuring the Patriarchy through Borders
The ‘kafala’ system is understood today as both an administrative apparatus to regulate migrant workers through a ‘sponsorship’ system, as well as a brutal ‘employment’ position for Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and in the Arab states of Jordan and Lebanon (Dermitzaki and Riewendt, 2020).
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