War and the Absurd in Zein El-Amine’s Watermelon Stories
Rana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised in Lebanon.
Rana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised in Lebanon.
In the midst of Lebanon's economic crisis, UN policy and research specialist Ghida Ismail laments the vanishing of Beirut's street vendors.
MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in adolescence.
Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef, born in a refugee camp, tells the story of his family's uprooting from Lebanon.
Evelyne Accad reviews a new book on Lebanese women and war, a collection of oral stories told in Arabic and translated by Malek Abisaab.
Adil Bouhelal reviews the new novel from the author of "Le Nez Juif" with its exploration of Lebanon from 1975 forward.
When the society surrounding them begins to break down, a Beiruti family's troubles echo the macrocosm.
Mariam Elnozahy reviews the new exhibit at London's Mosaic Rooms that looks at ecology and politics in Lebanon.
Nada Ghosn interviews the curator and Lebanese photographers exhibiting in the Abbey de Jumièges, north of Paris.
You can run from grief and death until you lose your mind, but life is reserved for those who fight for it.
Youssef Manessa reviews a short film from Ely Dagher that speaks to his generation of Lebanese born in the '90s.
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
Arie Akkersmans-Amaya reviews the latest film by Lebanese artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whom he interviews.
For April's column, music critic Melissa Chemam looks longingly at the legend of Lebanon's diva.
Karén Jallatyan reviews the book of Beirut's Armenian community with photography by Ara Oshagan and an essay by Krikor Beledian.