Rabih Mroué will present the first live performance of his recent film Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution, exploring the events that occurred in Beirut in 2019 — which were catalyzed by a video of a woman kicking Education Minister Akram Chehayeb’s body-guard in the groin going viral — as a series of feminist and queer led uprisings, performed by performers Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué.

Until the 1990s, words such as “uprisings”, “popular protests”, “revolution”, “intifada”, “demonstrations”, “revolutionary movements”, and “movement of demands” were used widely in our daily life and in different and varied fields, political, social or cultural. However, with time, the use of these designations receded in favor of the word “hirāk”, which had previously been almost absent from our daily vocabulary. Why, and what does this term mean? In Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution, Rabih Mroué explores the meanings of new term “hirāk”, taking the events in Lebanon in 2019 as a vivid example for his analysis and arguments.

Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution (2023)
Duration: around 80 min. 
 

Credits:
Written by Rabih Mroué, performed by Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué.
Photos by Patrick Salloum, with additional visual materials from the people of the revolution.
Translated to English by Feyrouz Serhal
Editor Lina Majdalanie
Thanks to Tarek El-Ariss, Yasser Mroué, Sarmad Louis and Patrick Salloum. 
Commissioned by the Reina Sofia Museum-Madrid, as part of the research of “Ideas for the War Machine Group/Malaga. 

Lina Majdalanie, Lebanese director, performer and playwright, based in Berlin. 
Her works include: Four Walls and a Roof (2024), Hartaqāt (2023), Second Look (series of video, 2020), Sunny Sunday (2020), Borborygmus (2019), Do I Know you? (2017), 33 rpm and a few seconds (2012), Photo-Romance (2009), Appendice (2007), I Had a Dream, Mom (video, 2006), Biokhraphia (2002), and others.
She curated: No One’s Land (Claiming Common Spaces V, Mousonturm-Frankfurt, 2023), Relatively Universal (HAU-Berlin, 2017), Beyond Beirut (Mousonturm-Frankfurt, 2016), Vues (Kunsthalle-Mulhouse, 2015) and Motion-Less (Tanzquartier-Vienna, 2009).

She taught at HEAD (Geneva, 2008-2013), DasArts (Amsterdam, 2012), Goethe University (Frankfurt, 2016 and 2021), Bard College (Berlin 2019), HFG-Karlsruhe (2021), Universität Leipzig (2025), and curently at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Rabih Mroué, Lebanese currently lives in Berlin. He is an actor, director, and playwright, and a Contributing Editor in the Lebanese quarterly “Kalamon” and TDR (New York). He is one of the founders and executive Board of Beirut Art Center association (BAC) and fellow at The International Research Center: “Interweaving Performance Cultures”/Freie Universität- Berlin, 2012/2013
His works include: Riding on a cloud, 33 rpm and a few seconds (2012), The Pixelated revolution (2012), The Inhabitants of images (2008), Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005), looking for a missing employee (2003) and others ...