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Women in Beirut: Telling our stories

Kim Chakanetsa talks to two Beirut-based creatives who made it their mission to tell women鈥檚 stories: artist Joana Hadjithomas and director Madonna Adib.

Kim Chakanetsa talks to two Beirut-based creatives who made it their mission to tell women鈥檚 stories.

Joana Hadjithomas is a Lebanese artist and director. Her work has been exposed at the Victoria and Albert museum in London and at the Guggenheim in New York. Her latest movie, Memory Box, inspired by her own experience of being a teenager in Lebanon during the civil war, was the country鈥檚 entry to the 2023 Oscars.

Madonna Adib is a Syrian writer and director whose work revolves around LGBTQ+ rights, identity and migration. Her latest documentary, Let My Body Speak, explores the experiences her body stores: her childhood in Damascus, witnessing the Syrian revolution, and falling in love with a woman.

Produced by Alice Gioia. Sound recording by Antonio Nakhoul.

(Image: (L) Madonna Adib, credit Elsy Hajjar. (R) Joana Hadjithomas.)

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