In her new book, Dima Issa argues that the influence of Lebanese vocal artist Fairouz on the Arab...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dima Issa
Caught between Beirut and a town in the Californian desert, Buthayna searches for the meaning amid life’s absurdities.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dina Abou Salem
In this newly translated novel excerpt from Hilal Chouman, the son of a civil war fighter learns about...
3 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Hilal Chouman
Daniele Rugo's documentary investigates Lebanon's devastating civil war and ruminates on the conflict's unmarked mass graves.
7 AUGUST 2023 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of...
2 JULY 2023 • By MK Harb
Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.
2 JULY 2023 • By Ahmed Awadalla
In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that...
2 JULY 2023 • By Rawand Issa
Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.
12 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Mireille Rebeiz remembers her Tante Rose and the lore of Armenian culture-history in Lebanon, where forgetting is endemic.
17 APRIL 2023 • By Mireille Rebeiz
Rana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised...
20 MARCH 2023 • By Rana Asfour
MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in...
5 MARCH 2023 • By MK Harb
Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef, born in a refugee camp, tells the story of his family's uprooting from Lebanon.
5 MARCH 2023 • By Samir El-Youssef
