Lebanese diva Myriam Fares is the subject of a new Netflix documentary

“Myriam Fares: The Journey” is launching on June 3. Instagram
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Updated 24 May 2021
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Lebanese diva Myriam Fares is the subject of a new Netflix documentary

DUBAI: Streaming giant Netflix is set to launch a new documentary based on the life of Lebanese singer Myriam Fares. Entitled “Myriam Fares: The Journey,” the new 71-minute long documentary is directed by Sherif Tarhini and will be available to watch on the streaming platform come June 3.

Fares, who gave us hits such as “Ghmorni” and “Inta el Hayat,” teased the news of the forthcoming documentary with her 15.6 million Instagram followers over the weekend, when she shared a cryptic post bearing the text “Myriam Fares 03.06.2021 on Netflix.” 

According to Netflix, the new documentary will offer her legion of fans an intimate look at her life “from pregnancy to album preparations” during lockdown with her family 

The description for the upcoming show reads: “Lebanese singer and ‘Queen of the Stage’ Myriam Fares documents her experiences with her family while in lockdown.”

Meanwhile, the trailer for the documentary shows Fares while she was pregnant with her second child, a boy named Dave, whom she gave birth to on Oct. 20, 2020.

“Six years of marriage passed in the blink of an eye. Even though a lot of things happened during those six years, time flew by, because me and Danny always support each other. And we thank God for this beautiful family,” she can be heard saying in the trailer, referencing her husband.

“Myriam Fares: The Journey” is the first Netflix documentary to be based on an Arab artist.


Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

Updated 20 February 2026
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Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

DUBAI: Kaouther Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” refused to accept an award at a Berlin ceremony this week after an Israeli general was recognized at the same event.

The director was due to receive the Most Valuable Film award at the Cinema for Peace gala, held alongside the Berlinale, but chose to leave the prize behind.

On stage, Ben Hania said the moment carried a sense of responsibility rather than celebration. She used her remarks to demand justice and accountability for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2024, along with two paramedics who were shot while trying to reach her.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“Justice means accountability. Without accountability, there is no peace,” Ben Hania said.

“The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions,” she said.

“I refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace. Not while the structures that enabled them remain untouched.”

Ben Hania said she would accept the honor “with joy” only when peace is treated as a legal and moral duty, grounded in accountability for genocide.