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I Too Hate the War
To be Lebanese, and southern in particular, means to live a fractured present, split between…
Jabal Amel’s Cultural Scene: Between Religious Authority and State Neglect
Creativity has been shackled by a web of prohibitions and taboos, turning literature into a…
Music in South Lebanon: The Heritage We’ve Lost
The wave of religiosity that swept through the South led to excessive restrictions on art.…
I Am Displaced Once Again from Gaza
The city was no longer as I had left it. And I was no longer…
I Am a Daughter of Gaza: As If I Laid My Nation’s Sorrows to Rest at a Cat’s Funeral
Peace be upon you, Gaza. Everything around me in exile takes me back to your…
The Shiite Question and the Lebanese National Narrative: From the Heritage of Jabal Amel to the State of Citizenship
Today, with shifting internal and regional conditions, and the growing costs of reliance on weapons—especially…
How Do We Remember Ugly Cities After Their Destruction?
Poverty is ugly in every sense, and Dahieh has always been home to the poor,…
My Father Survived After Being Ordered to Bark
Every scenario and nightmare visited me. And as dawn broke, I hurried to call my…
My Days as an Iraqi Stranded in Beirut on the Verge of a Massive War
In Beirut, I stood stranded with nothing but a cabin-sized bag, three days’ worth of…
On The Bloody Dawn in Tehran
By a cracked wall stood a young paramedic, staring at a stain of blood on…