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Lebanon

27 June, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Leaving One’s Country in Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home”

Rana Asfour reviews Mai Al-Nakib's debut novel, in which the protagonist always thought she would leave her country.

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27 June, 2022 • Myriam Dalal

Why I left Lebanon and Became a Transitional Citizen

More Lebanese live abroad than at home, and the exodus continues. Some have the option to leave, others cannot.

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15 June, 2022 • Joumana Haddad, Rana Asfour

Joumana Haddad: “Victim #232”

A preview of the new Arabic novel from the author of "I Killed Scheherazade" and "Superman is an Arab."

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16 May, 2022 • Nora Lester Murad

Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”

Nora Lester Murad reviews a "far-fetched" story of a marriage between a Palestinian Muslim and an American Jew.

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25 April, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Fairouz is the Voice of Lebanon, Symbol of Hope in a Weary Land

For April's column, music critic Melissa Chemam looks longingly at the legend of Lebanon's diva.

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21 March, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Music in the Middle East: Bring Back Peace

Our music columnist Melissa Chemam, disturbed by the war in Ukraine, makes the link between Odesa and Beirut via DJ Sama' Abdulhadi.

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15 March, 2022 • Abbas Baydoun, Lily Sadowsky

“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”

Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating sweets.

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10 January, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.

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15 December, 2021 • Tariq Mehmood

My Lebanese Landlord, Lebanese Bankdits, and German Racism

Racism props up its ugly head from every quarter, but Tariq Mehmood refuses to be deterred.

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15 December, 2021 • Nouha Homad

Three Levantine Tales

Writer, translator and artist Nouha Hamad tells three tales passed down as family legend connecting the 19th and 20th centuries.

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15 December, 2021 • Nadiyah Abdullatif, Anam Zafar

How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

Translators Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar bring us Lena Merhej's classic graphic novel on Merhej’s mother’s journey from West to East, and how as a German, she adapted to life in Lebanon.

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19 November, 2021 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of the late polymath Etel Adnan, 1925-2021.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.

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15 November, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

Diary of the Collapse: Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on the edge of the abyss.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt.

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