Lebanon

Amman Compendium: Mariam Itani on Beirut, Home, and the Paradox of Living in Jordan

In Translation by Wiam El-Tamami, from the Latest Issue of "The Common"

 
By Mariam Itani  May 19, 2025
Israel

The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

By Kenneth Roth  March 17, 2025
Nationalism

In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded

By Steven W. Thrasher  October 3, 2024
Spirituality

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

By Joan Acocella  February 20, 2024
Anniversaries

A Sunset Forever Spoiled: Remembering the Beirut Port Explosion, Three Years Later

By Tamara Saade  August 3, 2023
Philosophy

Tarek Abi Samra on Stealing Kant From a Bookstore

By Tarek Abi Samra and Lina Mounzer  August 8, 2022
Borders

Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

By Yara Zgheib  January 4, 2022
Keen On

Hala Alyan on the Sense of Displacement in the Middle East

By Keen On  December 21, 2021
Arab Literature

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
Climate Crisis

On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

By Charif Majdalani  August 4, 2021
Cundill History Prize

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
Open Letters

Long Live Enlightened Lebanon: A Letter from Arab Artists and Intellectuals

By Literary Hub  August 17, 2020
Beirut

Letter From Beirut: After Grief, There is Rage

By Farah Aridi  August 17, 2020
The Hub

Attend a night of storytelling to help those affected by the blast in Beirut.

By Corinne Segal  August 11, 2020
Disasters

Losing Beirut: On Life in a Shattered City

By Rima Rantisi  August 11, 2020
Poetry

The Beggars of Beirut

By Philip Metres  August 11, 2020
War

Elias Khoury’s Unique Vision of Civil War Lebanon

By Abdo Wazen  June 9, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Letter From Beirut: From Revolution to Pandemic

By Lina Mounzer  April 14, 2020
Food

On Knafeh and a Vision of the World Without Borders

By Vidya Balachander  January 6, 2020
Literary Criticism

On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

By Hanan al-Shaykh  June 5, 2019
Refugees

Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

By Alev Scott  May 9, 2019
Excerpts

Beirut, Modernism’s Vanished Utopia

By Robyn Creswell  February 4, 2019
Poets

On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time

By Philip Metres  September 17, 2018
Conversations

Identity, Desire, Sex: On Breaking Taboo, in Memoir and in Fiction

By Literary Hub  July 18, 2018
Criticism

Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War

By Philip Metres  March 20, 2018
Criticism

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

By Philip Metres  January 23, 2018
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