This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not)
1994, English. Directed by Jayce Salloum.
This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and experiences while working in Lebanon, focusing on the undertaking of this representational process as a Lebanese and a westernized, foreign-born mediator with cultural connections and baggage of both the West and Lebanon and some of the disparities and disjunctions arising in each, and iii) situating the work between genres looking from the inside out at each and engaging critically at the assumptions imposed and thus broken in this site of complexity one’s identity is found and constructed in.
- Runtime
- 0h 49m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- 1 January 1994
- Country
- Lebanon, United States of America
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This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not) isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1994. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not)?
This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not) (1994) was directed by Jayce Salloum.