The lute makes a strong comeback as the young "Stars of the Lute" perform at Al-Sawi Cultural Centre. Aziza Sami listened

Amal Choucri Catta follows the yellow brick road East

As Lebanon marked this month the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war 30 years ago, Iman Hamam discusses images of the war in film. Concentrating on Maroun Baghdadi's Little Wars, she traces the dichotomy of normal and abnormal, the collapse of the individual, and the pain and madness of war