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The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

A.J. Naddaff   Between the Parliament and the Royal Pathway in the center of Brussels, not too far...

18 OCTOBER 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

Racha Mounaged’s Debut Novel Captures Trauma of Lebanese Civil War

From time to time, TMR reviews recent titles published in other languages, to give readers insight before they...

18 OCTOBER 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut

Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ara Oshagan
Beirut Drag Queens Lead the Way for Arab LGBTQ+ Visibility

Beirut Drag Queens Lead the Way for Arab LGBTQ+ Visibility

Moustafa Daly talks to leaders in Lebanon’s creative and LBGTQ community about the drag queen scene.

8 AUGUST 2021 • By Anonymous
Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art

Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art

Yara Chaalan looks into the Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art in Gaza and profiles a few younger, emerging...

14 JULY 2021 • By Norman G. Finkelstein
The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

Mischa Geracoulis joins filmmaker Yung Chang and the late muckraker Robert Fisk in asking us to think about...

14 JULY 2021 • By Alia Mossallam
Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse

Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse

Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.

14 JUNE 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
Lebanese Oppose Corruption with a Game of Wasta

Lebanese Oppose Corruption with a Game of Wasta

Victoria Schneider reports from Beirut on the new Wasta board game that satirizes corruption in Lebanon.

14 JUNE 2021 • By Samir El-Youssef
War Diary: The End of Innocence

War Diary: The End of Innocence

Arie Amaya-Akkermans investigates Agenda 1979: Imagine sitting at home in the presence of a handbook for destroying, bombing,...

23 MAY 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Beirut Brings a Fragmented Family Together in “The Arsonists’ City”

Beirut Brings a Fragmented Family Together in “The Arsonists’ City”

Rana Asfour reviews the new novel by Hala Alyan, revisiting the city that marked her and the author...

9 MAY 2021 • By TMR
Memory and the Assassination of Lokman Slim

Memory and the Assassination of Lokman Slim

Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Claire Launchbury
Hanane Hajj Ali, Portrait of a Theatrical Trailblazer

Hanane Hajj Ali, Portrait of a Theatrical Trailblazer

Nada Ghosn talks to Beirut's powerhouse Hanane Hajj Ali who receives an international theatre award from League of...

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By I. Rida Mahmood
 
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