Essays

Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed

Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed

Artist Tom Young who divides his time between Beirut and London, paints in Hammam Al Jadid during its...

14 MAY 2021 • By Tom Young
Dinner at the White House, in the Lion’s Den

Dinner at the White House, in the Lion’s Den

Francisco Letelier searches for the truth about his father's assassination in Washington DC while excavating US government complicity...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

Would you trust an algorithm to sell you a used car? Andy Lee Roth peers under the hood...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Andy Lee Roth
On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

Marcus Gilroy-Ware, the author of After the Fact, The Truth About Fake News, warns that literacy and numeracy...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Marcus Gilroy-Ware
The Short, Happy Life of Shirley Thompson

The Short, Happy Life of Shirley Thompson

Novelist Preeta Samarasan believes that the greatest truths reside more often in fiction than in fact.

14 MARCH 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Biographer Marian Janssen reveals the big, brash, blonde feminist writer and poet Carolyn Kizer, who fascinated and shocked...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Marian Janssen
France’s Fake Islamo-Leftist Crisis

France’s Fake Islamo-Leftist Crisis

One of France's prime "Islamo-leftist" suspects, Raphaël Liogier, explains why the term does not apply and what the...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Raphaël Liogier
A Permanent Temporariness

A Permanent Temporariness

An Egyptian in Berlin finds she and her partner live in a state of seemingly permanent transition.

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Dear Neighbors With the Trump/Pence Sign

Dear Neighbors With the Trump/Pence Sign

Novelist and poet Laila Halaby reconciles herself with the neighborhood.

15 OCTOBER 2020 • By Laila Halaby
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
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