Variations on an Andalusian Theme – Undated Letters to Etel

From Granada to Cana: civil wars replicate—and water did not turn to wine, "blood simply turned into blood."

بلعيدي الحرب الاسبانية

Belaidi of the Spanish Civil War

An-Nahar

“Otherwise what would workers say about the Arabs?” That is how Muhammad Belaidi went to Spain and returned an internationalist martyr.

عن الاندلس وحرب العراق وقانا – رسائل الى اتيل عدنان

On Al-Andalus, the Iraq War, and Qana - Letters to Etel Adnan

An-Nahar

A surgical "error" of terrifying precision killed 108 in Qana — Joseph Samaha walks out of the mass grave: "Why?" Then: "What a stupid question!"

محمد بلعيدي: شهيد عربي دفاعاً عن الجمهورية الاسبانية

Muhammad Belaidi: An Arab Martyr in Defense of the Spanish Republic

When I heard Arabs fought for Franco, I said: I must do something — what will they say about Arabs? A Spanish woman raised her fist over the Arab's coffin.

غيرنيكا- بيكاسو : قراءة عربية

Picasso's Guernica: An Arab Reading

كلمات

A Lebanese before a Spanish audience draws Guernica near Beirut: a city that came to resemble the canvas.

(غيرنيكا) بيكاسو

Picasso's Guernica

الكرمل

Guernica is not Christian crucifixion, nor universal tragedy. A first reading of the century's painting.