الكرمل – Fawwaz Traboulsi

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With Abu Ammar During the Siege of Beirut

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Phantom jets before the chemical assassination, the accordion plan before "preventive war." Arafat's arenas.

Mountains of Flint: Palestine in the Art of Fairuz and the Rahbanis

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What the Palestinians did not make for themselves, the Rahbanis made — Mahmoud Darwish's testimony.

A Transport Crisis: The Funjissi's Observations in the Parisian Underworld

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A new Fariyaq in the Paris Métro: eyes trained never to meet, discipline manufactured by modernity.

What Has Been Vouchsafed of the Sura of the Stone

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The boy threw a stone at the soldier. The myth flipped, and the code of the occupation was broken.

Picasso's Guernica

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

Of a Hope With No Cure

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"The Palestinians are a plague" — an Israeli officer agrees he sounds like Hitler. The siege notebooks keep writing.

The Poetry of Revolution, a Revolution in Poetry

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Éluard the lover cannot be pried from Éluard the communist. Even the French right had to concede the point.