Between 1975 and 2015 she was part of the editorial team at the daily French free-expression newspaper, L’Orient-Le-Jour, notably occupying the role as cultural editor from 1990. Maria Chakhtoura also taught at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the Beirut Saint-Joseph University. A member of the Standing Committee of the International Mediterranean Women’s Forum – Unesco and of the Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF), she is the author of several publications: La Guerre des graffiti, Geneviève Gemayel, La Gardienne du clan (self-published 2000) and Mémoire de survie (Editions L’Orient Le Jour, 2008).La Guerre des graffiti (Graffiti War) is a book conceived as a dialogue between militiamen from all sides, on and across walls: the hitherto unseen concept of La guerre des graffiti makes it a reference book on more than one level.