Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal

The Directorate of General Security, a Lebanese intelligence agency, has renewed the passport of the Beirut-based curator Christine Tohmé after stalling her application for four days. Tohmé had said that she was targeted due to her influential role in the Lebanese culture sector; she is the founding director of Ashkal Alwan, the non-profit Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, which was established in 1993.
 
Tohmé said on Facebook last week that when she applied to t