Editing Beirut (section)

==In art, literature, and popular culture==
* [[Tawfiq Yusuf 'Awwad]]'s 1972 novel ''[[Death In Beirut]]'' (Arabic: طواحين بيروت) takes place in Beirut in the late 1960s.
* [[Ghada al-Samman]]'s 1977 book ''Beirut Nightmares'' (Arabic: كوابيس بيروت) describes Beirut during the civil war in the mid-1970s.
* ''[[Caramel (film)|Caramel]]'', a 2007 film by [[Nadine Labaki]], tells the story of five women who work in a beauty salon in Beirut.
* The 2008 Israeli animated film [[Waltz with Bashir]] portrays Beirut during the [[1982 Lebanon War|Israeli invasion]] in 1982.
* [[William Henry Bartlett]] painted a view of the city with Mount Lebanon in the background in 1838, with a poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], as {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/The Cedars of Lebanon|The Cedars of Lebanon]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Landon |first=Letitia Elizabeth |title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA98 |section=picture |year=1837 |publisher=Fisher, Son & Co. |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-date=18 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218201603/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA96 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Landon |first=Letitia Elizabeth |title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA100 |section=poetical illustration |page=29 |year=1837 |publisher=Fisher, Son & Co. |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-date=18 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218201603/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA98 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* American rock band [[Beirut (band)|Beirut]] is named for the city.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Syme |first1=Rachel |title=Beirut: The Band |url=https://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/18856/ |access-date=January 11, 2023 |work=New York |date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103170230/https://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/18856/ |url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
* In the American television series ''[[Homeland (TV series)|Homeland]]'', the episode "[[Beirut Is Back]]" (2012) was widely mocked for its portrayal of Beirut's Hamra neighborhood, which the show depicted as being a [[Hezbollah]] stronghold. Lebanon's government considered filing a lawsuit in response to the episode.<ref>{{cite news |title='Homeland's' Portrayal of Beirut Prompts Lebanon to Consider Lawsuit |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/homelands-portrayal-beirut-prompts-lebanon-381493/ |access-date=January 12, 2023 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 21, 2012 |archive-date=12 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112200809/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/homelands-portrayal-beirut-prompts-lebanon-381493/ |url-status=live }}</ref>