Joumana Haddad's short story delves into a woman's lifelong journey of navigating her relationship with the hijab.
26 APRIL 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a young Iranian woman in Tehran, albeit vehicled by fiction.
20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
Novelist Mai Al-Nakib opines that despite the bombs and the bullets, Arab voices and cultural narratives are on the rise and gaining momentum.
06 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora and in country.
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Eman Quotah
Poet and novelist Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a refugee from Aleppo who winds up on the streets of Beirut.
09 OCTOBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
07 AUGUST 2023 • By Karim Goury
Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.
12 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Karim Goury reviews Ali Cherri's haunting feature film The Dam, set in Sudan before the outbreak of the war this year.
04 JUNE 2023 • By Karim Goury
Former ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr. argues that we have entered a new era in which players are shifting on the geopolitical chess table.
29 MAY 2023 • By Chas Freeman, Jr.
A new documentary on Gaza from Roland Nurier is touring France and screening in diverse film festivals worldwide.
10 APRIL 2023 • By Karim Goury
Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.
20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim Goury
