TMR 1 • Beirut

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...

SEPTEMBER 15, 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...

SEPTEMBER 15, 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...

SEPTEMBER 15, 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,...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Jenine Abboushi
Beirut Comix Tell the Story

Beirut Comix Tell the Story

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
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...

SEPTEMBER 15, 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...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 • By Michel Tabet
Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s Adrift

Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s Adrift

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
Poetic Exploration of Illness Conveys Trauma

Poetic Exploration of Illness Conveys Trauma

I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in...

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 • By gethan&myles
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