Heritage

Music has always played an integral role in Lebanese culture and the oud is one of the nation’s most beloved instruments, as we discover with celebrated oud maker Fadi Matta.

Building boats for the fishermen in Lebanon, one modest workshop in the southern city of Saida continues the ancient traditional practice.

The Food Heritage Foundation’s Zeinab Jeambey meets rural women around the country continuing the tradition of collecting and cooking edible wild plants.

The Food Heritage Foundation’s Zeinab Jeambey goes on a countrywide journey to discover producers making Arabic ice cream the traditional way.

In Baalbeck, a unique embroidery technique known as taree remains a secret within the community.

Craftsman Naffah Naffah single-handedly continues the ancient family tradition of bell making in Beit Chabeb.

Zeinab Jeambey, from the Food Heritage Foundation, explores the specific ingredients that give some of our most notable dishes a distinctly sour taste.

You don’t have to venture far to find evidence of Lebanon’s glorious past. Nidal Majdalani takes us on a tour of five abandoned buildings in Mount Lebanon that will blow your …

In 2009 art historian Gregory Buchakjian began photographing crumbling Beirut buildings hoping to preserve some part of them before they vanished. His hobby eventually became a decade-long obsession.