Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani
Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.
Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.
Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.
في رواية «بخلاف ما سبق»، يعود عزت القمحاوي إلى شخصية خيالية قريبة إلى قلبه، سامي يعقوب، يعود إلى «صحبة ذلك الشاب الذي يقف على الحدود بين الذكاء وافتقاد التجربة، بين القدرة على رؤية المستقبل التي جعلته ينظر إلى الحياة كعرض متكرر والماضي الثقيل للعائلة الذي يجرّه خلفه».
في رواية مالك رابح الأولى «بيت الولد»، يصور لنا شخصيته الرئيسية الحساسة للغاية؛ كيف يستعيد ذلك الشاب ذكريات صدمات الطفولة، وعلاقته بأفراد عائلته ووالدته على الأخص، فيتبين لنا رويدًا رويدًا كيف أثر كل هذا عليه.
Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
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Mous Lamrabat’s latest solo show explores the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity, and love.
How do you talk about war and exile with your child, when all you want to do is protect him from the truth?
Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by studying her mom’s chickens, and roosters.
In untangling her relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience “The Prophet” in new ways.
The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel’s latest onslaught.