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Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2022

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut 1982

During the 1982 siege, Darwish read: "In the name of the fedayeen who created / from a boot, a horizon" — then locked himself in to write "Memory for Forgetfulness": "We only saw our image on Lebanon's polished stone."

Interviews AR Art & Literature History Politics 2015 Bidayat

الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Bidayat

Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

Memoirs AR History Politics 2006 As-Safir

سمير قصير، كيف أضعتك؟

Samir Kassir, How Did I Lose You?

As-Safir

"Samir Kassir, how did I lose you?" is a personal elegy that goes beyond physical loss to a political and intellectual estrangement, as "false heirs" attempt to erase Kassir's true legacy by presenting his final years as his entire life.

Articles EN History Politics 2004

Trauma and Memory

Three processes: amnesia, memory, forgetting. Lebanon practiced programmed amnesia—what is needed is remembering causes, not violence. "We can only forget what we remember."

Articles FR Art & Literature History 2001 Autrement

De la Suisse de l’Orient au Hanoi du monde arabe : bref historique d’une représentation

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arab World: A Brief History of a Representation

Autrement

From "Switzerland of the Orient" to "Hanoi of the Arab world"—Beirut is a city made of the desires and fears of others, and having destroyed itself under its projected roles, now searches for an author.

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 1998 An-Nahar

عن الأندلس وحرب العراق وقانارسائل إلى إيتل عدنان

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

An-Nahar

From Granada to Cana: "blood turned into... blood." Samaha mutters "Why?" then: "What a stupid question!"

Book Reviews EN Politics 1993

Cruelty and silence in perspective – on Kanan Makiya’s book

Makiya cuts quotes to prove a uniquely Arab "cruelty"—while he himself worked for Saddam's regime: "somebody had to do it."

Articles AR Art & Literature 1990

جون برجر

John Berger

In an elegy for John Berger, the author recalls a friendship and a teacher who changed his view of the world, teaching the eye to read the beautiful and the hidden, and how to struggle against 'the great defeat of the world' by drawing inspiration from Palestinian steadfastness.

Translations EN Art & Literature 1985

Ahmad uz-Za’tar – A poem by Mahmoud Darwish

Translation: "Let the siege be—my body is the fortress—for I am besieging you"—Darwish's Ahmad uz-Za'tar, translated by Traboulsi.

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