Lebanon: The Fighter's Dance for a Passport

Mona El Yafi wrote and directed My Night in Beirut, also published by Les Bras Nus, with an afterword by Alain Gresh. The form, between breath and flame, that she gives to this facetious and hard-hitting text in the company of the dancer Nadim Bahsoun also tells us of the urgency of remaining connected to Palestine and Lebanon. Winter 2022. Two years earlier, the explosion at the port of Beirut had made the capital even more chaotic and imbued w…