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A film workshop in Hamra, Lebanon's summer fruits, magazine spreads from the 60s, Etel Adnan's daftar, the National Library, risographs, and rejection

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Farrah Berrou
Jun 08, 2025
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This newsletter incorporates movement and activity (hikes, walks, etc) into my work. I’m a productive and self-disciplined person except when it comes to tasks related to taking care of myself (like exercise, diet, and rest). This log blends the two areas of my life (health + work) and it tracks my time in the field.

The 2024 paid newsletter, Grapevine, a bulleted list of offline things I was exploring, is now collapsed into this monthly dispatch.
Lebanon’s summer fruit season is in full swing - Hamra, May 2025

For the last two months, I was attending a film workshop at Kalei Hamra Ras Beirut so I was walking around Hamra more regularly. It will always be a special neighborhood to me thanks to my years at two universities there and I’ve missed knowing its streets and alleys the way I used to. The workshop itself was a weekly 3-hour session where the instructor broke down elements of film into parts (like light, dialogue, character building, storytelling, sound, etc). We were a very small group so the exercises pushed me out of my comfort zone without it being too embarrassing. Now that it’s over, I have mustered up some motivation to return to my work-in-progress which was the reason I signed up so it was a win overall.

Besides that, my youngest sister got engaged, my nephew started walking before his first birthday, and I spent about a week taking antibiotics. I’m better now 🧿 I also added “visual artist” to my bios. It’s taking some getting used to but I’m trying to own that that’s what I am, in addition to being a writer.

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