Christopher Nolan’s Confessional

Christopher Nolan’s Confessional

I don’t know if Odysseus went to confession often, but in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, he does at least once. The long-departed, though deceased, King of Ithaca returns home to his bride, Penelope, who has waited twenty years for his return. He has fought Trojans,...
Lebanon Is Not Sepia: Snow, Sea and Sorrow

Lebanon Is Not Sepia: Snow, Sea and Sorrow

Lebanon is often imagined from afar in the laziest possible colors: sandy, flat, dusty, somewhere between a camel postcard and a war report. But Lebanon is not dull or yellowish sepia as movies imagine it. Lebanon is green. It’s the only Middle Eastern country with no...