Al Araby tv
2019
In this film, we shed light on the cultural scene ofBeirut at the beginning of the last century, specifically from Hamra Street andBliss Street, where the American University of Beirut is located.
The film will tell the story of two of the mostimportant cultural cafés in Beirut's history, "Faisal Restaurant" and“Uncle Sam Café”.
"Faisal Restaurant" was established for thefirst time in 1919 opposite the main entrance to the university, and it becamefamous for attracting many first-class politicians in Lebanon in addition tothe Syrian intellectuals who immigrated at the time and followed themPalestinians.
In the early fifties, the Uncle Sam Café was anAmerican-style café. The Uncle Sam gathered a large number of students from theSyrian National Party at the university. Therefore, Arab nationalists did notfrequent it. The two most famous landmarks in Beirut were distinguished bytheir distinct political, intellectual and active character.
Through these two landmarks, we tell the story of animportant period in the formation of contemporary Arab political and culturalthought from the city of Beirut, where the biography of a contemporary thinker,politician, or writer of that period is not devoid of a session, meeting, oreven an exchange of conversations that took place in one of them.
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