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No Final Curtain on Beirut’s Zoukak Theatre

No Final Curtain on Beirut’s Zoukak Theatre

Zoukak embodied a rarity in the Lebanese theatre world, running ten years longer than its intrepid founders expected.

5 JUNE 2026 • By Amelia Izmanki
Grief and Hope in the Poetry of Dissonance

Grief and Hope in the Poetry of Dissonance

Aida Zilelian’s first chapbook traces the survival of a people, but also reminds the reader of other genocides,...

5 JUNE 2026 • By Sean Casey
Sad, Beautiful, and True: Love in Lebanon

Sad, Beautiful, and True: Love in Lebanon

Lebanon is a quiet, at times ominous, presence in A Sad and Beautiful World, an unexpected and moving...

5 JUNE 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
Epiphanies: There’s Not Enough Body in the Text

Epiphanies: There’s Not Enough Body in the Text

A translator reflects upon cultural parallels and the many dimensions of an anthology written by and about Jordanian...

29 MAY 2026 • By Addie Leak
Washing Off the Rosewater Tint

Washing Off the Rosewater Tint

The Library of Arabic Literature was forced to shutter, ending a vital injection of Arabic into the bloodstream...

29 MAY 2026 • By Chip Rossetti
When Reckoning Comes to Israel…

When Reckoning Comes to Israel…

In her latest column, Amal Ghandour keeps a ledger of Israeli atrocities, and ponders a possible moral reckoning.

29 MAY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
From New York to Abu Dhabi: Taking Leave

From New York to Abu Dhabi: Taking Leave

A writer's journeys, spiritual and physical, lead to a winding exploration of how to live beyond religious strictures...

22 MAY 2026 • By Sheana Ochoa
The Hollow Half  Maps the Distance Between Body and Home

The Hollow Half Maps the Distance Between Body and Home

A prize-winning memoir brings alive three generations of diasporic Palestinians, from Gaza to New York City and back.

22 MAY 2026 • By N.S. Ahmed
A Fanonian reading of Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy

A Fanonian reading of Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy

A dark political satire draws heavily on Fanon's writing but shifts the focus from abstract revolution to lived...

22 MAY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
Bassem Khandaqji’s Mask is a novel of Palestinian Resistance

Bassem Khandaqji’s Mask is a novel of Palestinian Resistance

The ghostly presence of the Nakba casts an ominous shadow over this newly translated novel by a former...

15 MAY 2026 • By Francesca Vawdrey
The Meaning of Palestine to This Levantine: A Matter of Love, a Question of Justice

The Meaning of Palestine to This Levantine: A Matter of Love, a Question of Justice

In this ode of sorts, a Lebanese writer wonders: how can love for Palestine, and yearning, still puzzle...

15 MAY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
A Gulf of Misunderstanding: On Pasolini’s Pétrole and Portrayals of the Khalij

A Gulf of Misunderstanding: On Pasolini’s Pétrole and Portrayals of the Khalij

An otherwise daring stage production falters when it comes to depictions — clichéd and outdated — of the...

15 MAY 2026 • By Georgina Van Welie
 
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