I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Annia Ciezadlo
Wajdi Mouawad has shaken Western theatre out of its rigid rules, bringing a dream-infused approach, odes to childhood's...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, forcing cities and some countries into more quarantines and further lockdown; without...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
In this wide-ranging essay, the writer revisits life before and after the civil war, participates in Lebanon's revolution,...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Jenine Abboushi
Beirut-based graphic artists Lina Ghaibeh and George "Jad" Khoury each recount what happened on the 4th of August,...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Lina Ghaibeh & George Khoury
Overcome by the staggering violence of the explosion that ravaged Beirut in August, Paris-based playwright and director Wajdi...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Wajdi Mouawad
The Chileans hold up a paradoxical mirror to us: they show us the worst of ourselves (the carelessness...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Michel Tabet
Maalouf draws a line from pivotal years in Middle Eastern history to some of the most pressing dilemmas...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in...
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 • By gethan&myles
