Amelia Izmanki

grew up in Canada and lives in Beirut where she works as an editor and journalist (work can be found under Amelia Hankins) and writes short stories that so far only her inner circle has read. She lives among cats and plants, and finds very good company in both.

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
Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki
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