The news from Lebanon reads like a litany of loss. Since the war began more than two months ago, not only have 2,882 people been killed and 8,768 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, but once again multiple heritage sites — especially those in the south — have been damaged and destroyed. Indeed, Lebanese heritage, inexorably linked to its peoples, shares in their vulnerability and suffering.
A Moveable Feast of MENA Pop Art at the MEI Gallery
A new exhibition at the Middle East Institute Art Gallery called Arab Pop Art: Between East and West offers a timely reminder that in spite of the conflict and turmoil in the region, there is a lively, vibrant, and cosmopolitan culture at play throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Maximal Miniatures: A Contemporary Take on a Centuries-Old Persian Art Form
The Maximal Miniatures exhibition, a curated collection on display at MEI’s gallery until May 23, 2025, is interested in the ways in which contemporary artists have reinvented the Persian miniature genre with new questions in mind.
Bridging Worlds: The Power and Practice of Cultural Diplomacy
The panel explores how cultural diplomacy can serve as a powerful tool to foster mutual understanding, advance national interests, and build lasting international relationships in a time of rapid global change.
Azar Nafisi in Conversation: The Role of Literature in Times of Crisis
The Middle East Institute Arts and Culture Center invites you to a special evening with acclaimed author and literary scholar Azar Nafisi, celebrated for her international bestseller, "Reading Lolita in Tehran".
Woman, Life, Freedom: How the Arts Energized Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) Arts and Culture Center invites you to join an in-person panel conversation on the role of the arts in Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement and the impact it continues to have three years after the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police.
