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Fairouz is the Voice of Lebanon, Symbol of Hope in a Weary Land

Fairouz is the Voice of Lebanon, Symbol of Hope in a Weary Land

For April's column, music critic Melissa Chemam looks longingly at the legend of Lebanon's diva.

25 APRIL 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Ghosts of Beirut: a Review of “displaced”

Ghosts of Beirut: a Review of “displaced”

Karén Jallatyan reviews the book of Beirut's Armenian community with photography by Ara Oshagan and an essay by...

11 APRIL 2022 • By Rachid Bouhamidi
Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in...

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
An Outsider’s Long Goodbye

An Outsider’s Long Goodbye

I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Annia Ciezadlo
Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World

Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World

Wajdi Mouawad has shaken Western theatre out of its rigid rules, bringing a dream-infused approach, odes to childhood's...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
Arts in the Pandemic Age

Arts in the Pandemic Age

Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, forcing cities and some countries into more quarantines and further lockdown; without...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
Beirut In Pieces

Beirut In Pieces

In this wide-ranging essay, the writer revisits life before and after the civil war, participates in Lebanon's revolution,...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Jenine Abboushi
It’s Time for a Public Forum on Lebanon

It’s Time for a Public Forum on Lebanon

Overcome by the staggering violence of the explosion that ravaged Beirut in August, Paris-based playwright and director Wajdi...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Wajdi Mouawad
Homage to the Chilean Rescue Workers of Beirut

Homage to the Chilean Rescue Workers of Beirut

The Chileans hold up a paradoxical mirror to us: they show us the worst of ourselves (the carelessness...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Michel Tabet
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