Mr. Mroué, 40, belongs to a tight-knit generation of artists, writers and filmmakers that has put Beirut back on the cultural map since the end of the civil war in 1990. They have learned to maneuver on the margins of mainstream society, striving to create works of formal precision and political insight with as little interference as possible from Lebanon’s fragile, divided government.

—"Lebanon Bans Tale of Fighters in Militias ," Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, New York Times, August 17, 2007.