{"id":31689,"date":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/31689\/creative-beirut-a-cultural-exploration-of-lebanon-in-edinburgh"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:08:42","slug":"creative-beirut-a-cultural-exploration-of-lebanon-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/31689\/creative-beirut-a-cultural-exploration-of-lebanon-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Beirut: A Cultural Exploration of Lebanon in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"This week, Lebanon took center stage in Scotland during a four-day, global ethnography showcase called Creative Beirut<\/a>. The event was organized by Arek Dakessian as part of his ongoing research into the arts and culture scene in Beirut, of which he\u2019s also an active member. Through presentations and panel discussions, Creative Beirut explored how artists and media producers respond to and negotiate dominant narratives in and of the city.


(Photo by Lindsay Manzella<\/a>)

The event introduced the University of Edinburgh audience to Beirut I Love You<\/a> and Shankaboot<\/a>, and featured an exhibition of photos by the Beirut Street Photography<\/a> community, as well as posters<\/a> by Dima Tannir and Tres Colacion. The event also included an academic discussion based on research by Caitlin Robinson<\/a> into cosmetic beauty practices in Lebanon. Robinson\u2019s research explores how the dominant post-war reconstruction narrative that emphasized rebuilding Beirut through consumption may be linked to these new cosmetic beauty ideals, and how beauty feeds into an emerging economy of cosmetic tourism.