Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic...
DECEMBER 6, 2024 • By Katie Logan
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
Amal Ghandour, author of "This Arab Life," casts her penetrating gaze on the burdens of Lebanon, including the...
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
Mireille Rebeiz objects to geopolitical hypocrisy when it comes to migrants and workers' rights, and supports the upcoming...
NOVEMBER 28, 2022 • By Mireille Rebeiz
Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and...
DECEMBER 15, 2021 • By Megan Marshall
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own...
JULY 11, 2021 • By Mark LeVine
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By C.S. Layla
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in...
JUNE 14, 2021 • By Lawrence Joffe
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
