An advice column that tackles personal questions inflected by our greater social, cultural, political, and historical contexts.
4 APRIL 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Nihad Sherif's 1972 novel is a pioneering Arabic sci-fi work on human cryopreservation, with prose reminiscent of Mahfouz...
6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Nihad Sherif, Lina Mounzer
Lebanon may have survived yet another Israeli onslaught but the people emerge scathed and timorous, as if from...
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Tarek Abi Samra, Lina Mounzer
In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Flaubert's theory of meaning and form rests on a mystical conception of the nature of writing, alongside the...
5 JULY 2024 • By Tarek Abi Samra, Lina Mounzer
True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina...
5 JULY 2024 • By Fawzi Zabyan, Lina Mounzer
Coline Houssais explores the rich tapestry of Arab literature intertwined with the poetic allure of Paris.
31 MARCH 2024 • By Coline Houssais, Lina Mounzer
Senior editor Lina Mounzer articulates the inexpressible, inconsolable feelings at a time when genocide is occurring before the...
3 MARCH 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Lina Mounzer reviews the new book by Anna Lekas Miller that gathers stories of love- and border-challenged couples.
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
After the war, a few scant survivors become one with the elements, and one takes to writing down...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Lina Mounzer
Prefacing our special Palestine issue, senior editor Lina Mounzer attempts to express the horror that has become the...
16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Lina Mounzer
