15 September, 2020

Aboudy’s Roses

An exclusive excerpt from Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli's Generazioni senza padri: Crescere in Guerra in Medio Oriente…Fatherless Generation: Growing up in War in the Middle East, trans. from the Italian by Sarah Mills.

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15 September, 2020

Arts in the Pandemic Age

Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, forcing cities and some countries into more quarantines and further lockdown; without music, cinema, literature and artistic events, how long can we hold on?

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15 September, 2020

Beirut In Pieces

In this wide-ranging essay, the writer revisits life before and after the civil war, participates in Lebanon's revolution, imagines the country's monetary implosion, and contemplates the Port of Beirut explosion—all while weighing the social terms of Lebanon's political renewal.

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15 September, 2020

Beirut Comix Tell the Story

Beirut-based graphic artists Lina Ghaibeh and George "Jad" Khoury each recount what happened on the 4th of August, 2020, a day that shall live in infamy as far as Lebanon's leaders are concerned. But the people will, at the end of the day, triumph.

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