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Chewing Viagra Gum, the Audio Version!

Chewing Viagra Gum, the Audio Version!

Malu Halasa performs Mai Ghoussoub's groundbreaking essay, "Chewing Viagra Gum."

15 MARCH 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Carlo in Belgrade (in which a father loves a son)

Carlo in Belgrade (in which a father loves a son)

A father's love for one of his sons is almost ineffable, in Hanif Kureishi's journal intime and travel...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Hanif Kureishi
Desire and the Palestinian Kitchen

Desire and the Palestinian Kitchen

A take on desire from a masterful cook and Bethlehem chef, Fadi Kattan.

15 MARCH 2022 • By Ella Shohat
Your Wish is My Command: A Concierge’s Story

Your Wish is My Command: A Concierge’s Story

A young Arab American concierge working at the iconic Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills recalls what it was...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Gilbert Achcar
“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”

“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”

Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun
Three Poems of Love and Desire by Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three Poems of Love and Desire by Nouri Al-Jarrah

Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Noreen Moustafa
Hand-Written Love Letters and Words of the Great Arab Poets

Hand-Written Love Letters and Words of the Great Arab Poets

Artist Reem Mouasher shares her recent series of paintings, inspired by the era of hand-written love letters, borrowing...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Atia Shafee
Fiction: “Skin Calluses” by Khalil Younes

Fiction: “Skin Calluses” by Khalil Younes

Syrian artist and writer Khalil Younes recalls the strained sexuality of Martyrs Square in Damascus.

15 MARCH 2022 • By Khalil Younes
No Sex Please, We’re Syrian: on Syrian Sexual Humor During War

No Sex Please, We’re Syrian: on Syrian Sexual Humor During War

A frank look at the changing social attitudes toward sexuality in war-torn Syria.

15 MARCH 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Iranian American poet and translator Haleh Liza Gafori presents a new volume of Rumi translations in "GOLD" published...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Haleh Liza Gafori
On “True Love Leaves No Traces”

On “True Love Leaves No Traces”

From Leonard Cohen to Apollo and Daphne to French philosopher Jean-Lun Nancy, Arie Akkermans-Amaya looks at the influences...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Selma Dabbagh
The Art of Remembrance in Abacus of Loss

The Art of Remembrance in Abacus of Loss

Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy
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