The year 2017 was the centenary of the controversial Balfour Declaration, and 2018 marked the seventieth year since the partitioning of Palestine and the historic Nakba prefiguring the creation of the State of Israel. These ...

Unlike his more recent novels such as The Hakawati (2006) and An Unnecessary Woman (2013), which also lambast patriarchy, but not from a queer perspective, the early fiction of Rabih Alameddine, Lebanon's only openly gay ...

This partly biographical narrative recounts its narrator’s first-hand, ground-zero experience of the Beirut Port explosion, one of the largest and most destructive in living memory. As the narrator recollects her mother’s ...

For over four centuries, Lebanon was shackled to the Ottoman Empire, whose later decline was described by nineteenth-century commentators as the "Sick Man of Europe." This epithet is one of many disease metaphors that may ...

Ageing in the Arab world remains to date an occluded topic. Overshadowed in government policy, media, and public opinion by often more pressing issues—unemployment, militancy, sectarianism, civil war, and revolution—ageing ...

This memoir comments, in verse, on its author’s experiences of teaching creative writing at an Anglophone university in Beirut, Lebanon. The poem develops the premise that the creative writing classroom, especially in ...

Prologue: Dissident Voices in a Bleak Political Landscape Life writing may have been acknowledged as an independent, if interdisciplinary, field in literary criticism in the North American and Anglophone European contexts ...