Laila Halaby’s <em>The Weight of Ghosts</em> is a Haunting Memoir

Assadour Bezdikian (b. Lebanon 1943), Untitled, oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm (courtesy Artscoops).

28 AUGUST 2023 • By Thérèse Soukar Chehade
“Denied the right to both a father and a culture, she spent the years that followed unraveling the repercussions of these revelations, which she kept contained in a ‘cabinet’ of her mind as she went about her life, until Raad’s death shattered this fragile balance and forced a reckoning.”

 

The Weight of Ghosts, a memoir by Laila Halaby
Red Hen Press 2023
ISBN 9781636281346

 

Thérèse Soukar Chehade

 

“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall tales, glopped onto their secrets and lies.” That may be the case, but the author’s story emerges as fearlessly authentic nonetheless. The Weight of Ghosts begins with the death of Halaby’s older son, Raad. In 2017, on a rainy February night, shortly after two o’clock in the morning, Raad was hit and killed by an 18-wheeler while standing by the side of a highway in Tucson, Arizona. He was 21 years old.

The Weight of Ghosts is published by Ren Hen.

We then learn about Halaby’s early years. Born in Lebanon, she moved to the United States with her (white) American mother as a child. Beginning at the age of 12 and continuing into her 20s, she discovered that everything she believed about herself was a lie. Her parents were never married, making her a ghalta, Arabic for mistake. Her real father was a married Jordanian man with six children who refused to openly acknowledge her. Denied the right to both a father and a culture, she spent the years that followed unraveling the repercussions of these revelations, which she kept contained in a “cabinet” of her mind as she went about her life, until Raad’s death shattered this fragile balance and forced a reckoning.

The memoir is part love letter to Raad, part vindication of Halaby’s right to live authentically. The writing alternates between the two, echoing Halaby’s brokenness as she assembles a new “mosaic” of life and establishes a thematic link between Raad’s death and her splintered life. Halaby addresses him in achingly beautiful poems, maintaining her bond with his spirit through the birds that he loved and that flutter about like emissaries.

For Halaby, writing makes visible what was obliterated yet still persists unseen, and enables her to weave a web of connection around the loss. “Writing saved my life,” she states. With exquisitely precise prose, she conveys the devastating effects of grief and ties together the past and the present, the living and the dead. “Accuracy matters,” the author writes, a moral and artistic statement as well as a map for undoing the damage wrought by the lies that plagued her beginnings.

The sense of being a mistake lingers. To come into the world by accident is to come dangerously close to not being born at all. What do you do with a mistake except try to erase it? In many ways, The Weight of Ghosts balances on the edge between existence and nothingness, a life-death divide where the author grapples with the physical absence of Raad, whose birth wiped away the mistake of Halaby’s own. But then Raad was taken from her.

Such twinning of absence and presence multiplies into a pattern. “There was or there wasn’t,” she states repeatedly, allowing for the realization of both alternatives. This dichotomy — of the amorphous and the tangible, truth and lie, yearning and possession — was passed down, in Raad’s case, through his strong resemblance to his Jordanian maternal grandfather, whose identity had to remain secret, and his Palestinian father, Halaby’s ex-husband. “How does it feel to come from a country that doesn’t exist?” a neighbor in Tucson once asked Halaby’s ex-husband; Palestine, ungraspable yet right over the border from Jordan, and from Lebanon, Halaby’s birth country. “To be denied your story is to know Palestine,” she writes, thereby forging her own connection with that troubled land.

Love opens up the possibility for wholeness while also creating the risk of dissolving into the needs and egos of others. “Because I come from two worlds, I am very good at taking on whatever the person I love takes on,” the author writes. Maleness and whiteness, the conferrers of legitimacy, combine in one man, who becomes the divorced Halaby’s long-term companion. She calls him The White Man I Loved, shortened to TWMIL. Despite the love she feels for him, her “knowing self” has reservations. “White-man-love is a leash keep me from soaring [sic]; maybe it’s just man-love and got nothing to do with white,” she writes a year and a half into their relationship. When TWMIL makes clear that he wants her to revert to being the woman he fell in love with before Raad died, they part ways. She is light years away from the woman she was back then.

Always aware of color as a divisive and oppressive force — “You can’t step into one room without tripping over Brown or White or Black or Non-White or some kind of struggle battling some kind of privilege” — Halaby actively counteracts a racist system by sussing out the individual shades made invisible by it: “I was the opposite of I don’t see color. I was I see all shades of color and that’s where I find the truth.” The truth is that she is “50.7 percent Western Asian/North African, 49.3 percent Northern European.” This level of attention to one’s genetic origins may seem self-involved, but pedigree matters when your sense of self is shattered early on. Ultimately, Halaby acknowledges her place as an insider/outsider in American race relations. “The assumption I was white,” she writes, “allowed me privileges I am still unpacking.”  

In reading The Weight of Ghosts, I occasionally found myself wishing to learn more about the effects of racism on Raad and his younger brother. This omission, in a work that is highly successful at bringing together various themes of loss and is delivered with largehearted and vulnerable honesty, might be a way for Halaby to protect Raad, even after his death. At any rate, it is heartbreakingly poignant when, at the end of the memoir, Raad speaks for himself. Halaby reproduces an article he wrote for the Daily Wildcat, a student newspaper at the University of Arizona, which he was attending. We come face to face with a brilliant young man who cared deeply about the world he lived in, and we lament his early passing.

Halaby must live in a world without Raad that continually reminds her of him:

The red toaster makes me think of you.
Falling asleep in front of a movie makes me think of you.
Chris in Gentefied makes me think of you.
Christian Cooper makes me think of you.
Al Pacino always makes me think of you. That moment we saw
him with Houri in Santa Monica when you were a baby was when
you caught the movie bug.
Looking at your posters makes me think of you.
Walking by the back door makes me think of you.
I am still waiting for you to walk in.

In one of her writing classes, Halaby instructs her students to record whatever they hear and see, including a staged disturbance she does not warn them about in advance. It is an exercise in paying close attention even amid disruption and chaos. The Weight of Ghosts is a hauntingly beautiful memoir, painstakingly attentive to the eddies of grief and the signs of regeneration, and a testament to the power of language to reconnect us with what we have lost.

 

Thérèse Soukar Chehade

Thérèse Soukar Chehade Thérèse Soukar Chehade grew up in Beirut and moved to the United States in 1983. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her first novel, Loom, was published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press and won the... Read more

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Hartaqât: Heresies of a World with Policed Borders

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Nada Ghosn
<em>Hartaqât</em>: Heresies of a World with Policed Borders
Theatre

Lebanese Thespian Aida Sabra Blossoms in International Career

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Nada Ghosn
Lebanese Thespian Aida Sabra Blossoms in International Career
Books

Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dima Issa
Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine
Fiction

“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dina Abou Salem
“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem
Book Reviews

Saqi’s Revenant: Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic Nablus Novel Wild Thorns

25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Noshin Bokth
Saqi’s Revenant: Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic Nablus Novel <em>Wild Thorns</em>
Amazigh

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4 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By TMR
World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier
Books

“Sadness in My Heart”—a story by Hilal Chouman

3 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Hilal Chouman, Nashwa Nasreldin
“Sadness in My Heart”—a story by Hilal Chouman
Fiction

“A Dog in the Woods”—a short story by Malu Halasa

3 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
“A Dog in the Woods”—a short story by Malu Halasa
Book Reviews

Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts is a Haunting Memoir

28 AUGUST 2023 • By Thérèse Soukar Chehade
Laila Halaby’s <em>The Weight of Ghosts</em> is a Haunting Memoir
Book Reviews

What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?

21 AUGUST 2023 • By Jonathan Ofir
What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?
Book Reviews

Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s Imagining Palestine

7 AUGUST 2023 • By Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s <em> Imagining Palestine</em>
Film

The Soil and the Sea: The Revolutionary Act of Remembering

7 AUGUST 2023 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
<em>The Soil and the Sea</em>: The Revolutionary Act of Remembering
Art

What Palestine Brings to the World—a Major Paris Exhibition

31 JULY 2023 • By Sasha Moujaes
<em>What Palestine Brings to the World</em>—a Major Paris Exhibition
Book Reviews

Ghassan Zeineddine Reflects On, Transcends the Identity Zeitgeist

17 JULY 2023 • By Youssef Rakha
Ghassan Zeineddine Reflects On, Transcends the Identity Zeitgeist
Fiction

We Saw Paris, Texas—a story by Ola Mustapha

2 JULY 2023 • By Ola Mustapha
We Saw <em>Paris, Texas</em>—a story by Ola Mustapha
Arabic

Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel

2 JULY 2023 • By Rawand Issa, Amy Chiniara
Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel
Fiction

Tears from a Glass Eye—a story by Samira Azzam

2 JULY 2023 • By Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman
Tears from a Glass Eye—a story by Samira Azzam
Arabic

Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

4 JUNE 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love
Essays

Alien Entities in the Desert

4 JUNE 2023 • By Dror Shohet
Alien Entities in the Desert
Featured Artist

Nasrin Abu Baker: The Markaz Review Featured Artist, June 2023

4 JUNE 2023 • By TMR
Nasrin Abu Baker: The Markaz Review Featured Artist, June 2023
Poetry Markaz

Arthur Kayzakian, The Book of Redacted Paintings

4 JUNE 2023 • By Arthur Kayzakian
Arthur Kayzakian, <em>The Book of Redacted Paintings</em>
Book Reviews

How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town

15 MAY 2023 • By Karim Kattan
How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town
TMR Conversations

TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh

11 MAY 2023 • By Amal Ghandour, Raja Shehadeh
TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh
Beirut

The Saga of Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

1 MAY 2023 • By Meera Santhanam
The Saga of Mounia Akl’s <em>Costa Brava, Lebanon</em>
Beirut

Tel Aviv-Beirut, a Film on War, Love & Borders

20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim Goury
<em>Tel Aviv-Beirut</em>, a Film on War, Love & Borders
Beirut

Interview with Michale Boganim, Director of Tel Aviv-Beirut

20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim Goury
Interview with Michale Boganim, Director of <em>Tel Aviv-Beirut</em>
Beirut

War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s Watermelon Stories

20 MARCH 2023 • By Rana Asfour
War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s <em>Watermelon</em> Stories
Book Reviews

In Search of Fathers: Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Memoir

13 MARCH 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
In Search of Fathers: Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Memoir
Centerpiece

Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

5 MARCH 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration
Fiction

“Counter Strike”—a story by MK HARB

5 MARCH 2023 • By MK Harb
“Counter Strike”—a story by MK HARB
Fiction

“Mother Remembered”—Fiction by Samir El-Youssef

5 MARCH 2023 • By Samir El-Youssef
“Mother Remembered”—Fiction by Samir El-Youssef
Essays

More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab

5 MARCH 2023 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab
Book Reviews

Finding Home, Finding Normal and The Myth of Normal

5 MARCH 2023 • By Sheana Ochoa
Finding Home, Finding Normal and <em>The Myth of Normal</em>
Essays

Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay

5 MARCH 2023 • By Anam Raheem
Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay
Beirut

The Curious Case of Middle Lebanon

13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
The Curious Case of Middle Lebanon
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Deluge at Wadi Feynan

6 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Deluge at Wadi Feynan
TV Review

Palestinian Territories Under Siege But Season 4 of Fauda Goes to Brussels and Beirut Instead

6 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Brett Kline
Palestinian Territories Under Siege But Season 4 of <em>Fauda</em> Goes to Brussels and Beirut Instead
TMR Interviews

The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar
Art

The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Malu Halasa
The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art
Art

Art World Picks: Albraehe, Kerem Yavuz, Zeghidour, Amer & Tatah

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By TMR
Art

Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine
Art

Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Nora Ounnas Leroy
Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 3

5 DECEMBER 2022 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 3
Book Reviews

Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Diana Buttu
Fida Jiryis on Palestine in <em>Stranger in My Own Land</em>
Fiction

“Eleazar”—a short story by Karim Kattan

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
“Eleazar”—a short story by Karim Kattan
Art

An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Rushda Rafeek
An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib
Opinion

Fragile Freedom, Fragile States in the Muslim World

24 OCTOBER 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
Fragile Freedom, Fragile States in the Muslim World
Columns

For Electronica Artist Hadi Zeidan, Dance Clubs are Analogous to Churches

24 OCTOBER 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
For Electronica Artist Hadi Zeidan, Dance Clubs are Analogous to Churches
Fiction

“Ride On, Shooting Star”—fiction from May Haddad

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By May Haddad
“Ride On, Shooting Star”—fiction from May Haddad
Interviews

Interview with Ahed Tamimi, an Icon of the Palestinian Resistance

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Nora Lester Murad
Interview with Ahed Tamimi, an Icon of the Palestinian Resistance
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 1

26 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 1
Art & Photography

Kader Attia, Berlin Biennale’s Curator

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Kader Attia, Berlin Biennale’s Curator
Columns

Phoneless in Filthy Berlin

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Maisan Hamdan, Rana Asfour
Phoneless in Filthy Berlin
Film

The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Irit Neidhardt
The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin
Art & Photography

Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project
Book Reviews

After Marriage, Single Arab American Woman Looks for Love

5 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Eman Quotah
After Marriage, Single Arab American Woman Looks for Love
Art & Photography

16 Formidable Lebanese Photographers in an Abbey

5 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Nada Ghosn
16 Formidable Lebanese Photographers in an Abbey
Music Reviews

Hot Summer Playlist: “Diaspora Dreams” Drops

8 AUGUST 2022 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Hot Summer Playlist: “Diaspora Dreams” Drops
Editorial

Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?

15 JULY 2022 • By TMR
Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?
Fiction

Where to Now, Ya Asfoura?—a story by Sarah AlKahly-Mills

15 JULY 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Where to Now, Ya Asfoura?—a story by Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Film Reviews

War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”

15 JULY 2022 • By Farah Abdessamad
War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”
Book Reviews

Leaving One’s Country in Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home”

27 JUNE 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Leaving One’s Country in Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home”
Columns

Why I left Lebanon and Became a Transitional Citizen

27 JUNE 2022 • By Myriam Dalal
Why I left Lebanon and Became a Transitional Citizen
Art & Photography

Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine

15 JUNE 2022 • By TMR
Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine
Featured excerpt

Joumana Haddad: “Victim #232”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Joumana Haddad, Rana Asfour
Joumana Haddad: “Victim #232”
Essays

Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”
Film

Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”
Fiction

Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Selma Dabbagh
Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”
Art

Book Review: “The Go-Between” by Osman Yousefzada

13 JUNE 2022 • By Hannah Fox
Book Review: “The Go-Between” by Osman Yousefzada
Book Reviews

Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”

16 MAY 2022 • By Nora Lester Murad
Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”
Opinion

Palestinians and Israelis Will Commemorate the Nakba Together

25 APRIL 2022 • By Rana Salman, Yonatan Gher
Palestinians and Israelis Will Commemorate the Nakba Together
Beirut

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

25 APRIL 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Fairouz is the Voice of Lebanon, Symbol of Hope in a Weary Land
Columns

Green Almonds in Ramallah

15 APRIL 2022 • By Wafa Shami
Green Almonds in Ramallah
Columns

Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian Family Dinners in London

15 APRIL 2022 • By Layla Maghribi
Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian Family Dinners in London
Film Reviews

Palestine in Pieces: Hany Abu-Assad’s Huda’s Salon

21 MARCH 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Palestine in Pieces: Hany Abu-Assad’s <em>Huda’s Salon</em>
Opinion

U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

21 MARCH 2022 • By Yossi Khen, Jeff Warner
U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine
Columns

Music in the Middle East: Bring Back Peace

21 MARCH 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Music in the Middle East: Bring Back Peace
Essays

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

15 MARCH 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun, Lily Sadowsky
“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”
Columns

“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”

24 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”
Art

Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Atia Shafee
Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories
Columns

LA Sketches: Fred Saidy, Humorist

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By TMR
LA Sketches: Fred Saidy, Humorist
Latest Reviews

L.A. Story: Poems from Laila Halaby

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Laila Halaby
L.A. Story: Poems from Laila Halaby
Art

L.A. Artist: Rachid Bouhamidi

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Rachid Bouhamidi
L.A. Artist: Rachid Bouhamidi
Featured excerpt

The Displaced, the Unwanted, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Book Reviews

Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

10 JANUARY 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world
Columns

My Lebanese Landlord, Lebanese Bankdits, and German Racism

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
My Lebanese Landlord, Lebanese Bankdits, and German Racism
Fiction

Three Levantine Tales

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Nouha Homad
Three Levantine Tales
Comix

How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Nadiyah Abdullatif, Anam Zafar
How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner
Beirut

Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest
Art

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

19 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance
Columns

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Hadani Ditmars
Burning Forests, Burning Nations
Book Reviews

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
<em>Diary of the Collapse</em>—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire
Book Reviews

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Hadani Ditmars
The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?
Featured excerpt

Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison
Centerpiece

The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi
Film Reviews

Will Love Triumph in the Midst of Gaza’s 14-Year Siege?

11 OCTOBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Will Love Triumph in the Midst of Gaza’s 14-Year Siege?
Editorial

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Aomar Boum
Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa
Latest Reviews

Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

15 AUGUST 2021 • By George Jad Khoury
Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History
Latest Reviews

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco
Weekly

World Picks: August 2021

12 AUGUST 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
World Picks: August 2021
Columns

Remember 18:07 and Light a Flame for Beirut

4 AUGUST 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Remember 18:07 and Light a Flame for Beirut
Weekly

Heba Hayek’s Gaza Memories

1 AUGUST 2021 • By Shereen Malherbe
Heba Hayek’s Gaza Memories
Essays

Gaza, You and Me

14 JULY 2021 • By Abdallah Salha
Gaza, You and Me
Weekly

War Diary: The End of Innocence

23 MAY 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
War Diary: The End of Innocence
Book Reviews

The Triumph of Love and the Palestinian Revolution

16 MAY 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Essays

The Bathing Partition

14 MAY 2021 • By Sheana Ochoa
The Bathing Partition
Essays

Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed

14 MAY 2021 • By Tom Young
Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed
Art

The Labyrinth of Memory

14 MAY 2021 • By Ziad Suidan
The Labyrinth of Memory
Essays

Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?

14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller, TMR
Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?
Essays

Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in

14 MAY 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in
Weekly

“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish

28 MARCH 2021 • By Patrick James Dunagan
“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish
TMR 7 • Truth?

Poetry Against the State

14 MARCH 2021 • By Gil Anidjar
Poetry Against the State
Poetry

A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza

14 MARCH 2021 • By TMR
A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza
Weekly

Hanane Hajj Ali, Portrait of a Theatrical Trailblazer

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Nada Ghosn
Hanane Hajj Ali, Portrait of a Theatrical Trailblazer
Film Reviews

Muhammad Malas, Syria’s Auteur, is the subject of a Film Biography

10 JANUARY 2021 • By Rana Asfour
Muhammad Malas, Syria’s Auteur, is the subject of a Film Biography
Book Reviews

The Howling of the Dog: Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”

30 DECEMBER 2020 • By Layla AlAmmar
The Howling of the Dog: Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”
TMR 4 • Small & Indie Presses

You Drive Me Crazy, from “Bride of the Sea”

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Eman Quotah
You Drive Me Crazy, from “Bride of the Sea”
TMR 4 • Small & Indie Presses

Children of the Ghetto, My Name Is Adam

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Elias Khoury
Children of the Ghetto, My Name Is Adam
TMR 3 • Racism & Identity

Find the Others: on Becoming an Arab Writer in English

15 NOVEMBER 2020 • By Rewa Zeinati
Centerpiece

The Road to Jerusalem, Then and Now

15 NOVEMBER 2020 • By Raja Shehadeh
The Road to Jerusalem, Then and Now
TMR 3 • Racism & Identity

I am the Hyphen

15 NOVEMBER 2020 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
I am the Hyphen
Essays

Dear Neighbors With the Trump/Pence Sign

15 OCTOBER 2020 • By Laila Halaby
Dear Neighbors With the Trump/Pence Sign
World Picks

Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels

22 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By TMR
Interlink Proposes 4 New Arab Novels
Beirut

Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World
Beirut

Beirut In Pieces

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Jenine Abboushi
Beirut In Pieces
Beirut

Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s Adrift

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s <em>Adrift</em>

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