Created by Muriel Aboulrouss & Denise Jabbour

Artists Georgette Gebara, Roger Assaf, Mireille Maalouf, Rifaat Torbey, Randa Kaady, Faek Homaissi, Randa Asmar, Nicolas Daniel, Takla Chamoun, Ziad Ahmadieh, Oumeima Khalil, and Harout Fazlian

Online https://www.youtube.com/@HomeofCineJam/playlists

Muriel Aboulrouss started her career in 1997 as a cinematographer. She shot commercials, shorts, features and series. She is known as the first Arab female cinematographer, winning international awards for many of her work.

In 2012, Muriel decided to retire as a cinematographer. She was wondering what life had in store for her, and how her passion and talent could be of service beyond financial contributions and social status. That same year, she founded the intuitive film lab program “Cine-Jam” that explores the audiovisual tools, intuitively, as a free artistic expression, with the aim of empowering and inspiring emerging audiovisual artists to equip them with the courage to experiment & create the Art that reflects their uniqueness.

In 2014, she created with Denise Jabbour the award winning series Zyara (visit) which became her mission in Art, as in life. Zyara is a poetic experimental documentary series that aims to portray the beauty and resilience of the people they visit, calling them “heroes”. After almost 100 episodes so far produced, Zyara has won 45 international awards. In addition to its successful online journey, it became a tool for raising awareness in schools, empowering the youth and inspiring them to rise stronger no matter what challenges they face in life.

In 2023, Muriel started freelancing as a creative consultant for corporate agencies and independent creators/producers. She is the co-founder of Home of Cine-Jam, the humanitarian arts association, and she conducts, as independent teacher, her annual 8-week filmlab program, with the solid conviction that talent is a gift to be explored, freedom is a choice that requires courage and self love, truth is an act of revolution, and revolution is a duty!

Denise Jabbour is a Creative Producer from Beirut, Lebanon.

She started her career as an agency producer, handling print, radio, and TVC productions for many prestigious brands.

After a few years, she moved back to Lebanon to work on storytelling.  She worked with “Batoota Films” and “the BBC trust fund” on Arabic web-drama series:  ‘Shankaboot’  –  winner of the International Emmy Award in Cannes 2011. ‘Fasateen’ won The Grand Prix Du Jury at Marseille Film Festival.

She's been since 2009 head of production and development in the Middle East for Visionaire Media & Layalina Productions, producing  American Caravan,  Injaz, Yemeniettes, Trading Places, and On The Road In America.

She created Zyara in 2014 and started producing it. This documentary series is the first creation of her humanitarian arts association “Home of Cine Jam”, which she set up together with Muriel Alboulrouss. Zyara won 45 international awards so far and a new season of 12 episodes is produced every year.

Her other projects include: Confessions of a Runner, Daughters of Darkness, Confessions from the War, and Project Soar.

“Through it all, I have been enjoying life fully, learning from every adventure I embark on, working with amazing partners, surrounded by a passionate crew and most of all – at the end of each journey – delivering a beautiful story to audiences across the world.”

— Denise Jabbour

Screening in Arabic with English subtitles.

🕓 1h30

No break

Martyrs' Square, Beirut Downtown

Outdoors venue

Capacity: 700 seats

Directions via Google Maps ↱

Parking available for free / street parking / parking available for a fee