On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a remote Lebanese church left two dozen dead. In the aftermath, the town was torn in two. Jabbour Douaihy’s ‘June Rain’ reconstructs the day through the viewpoints of various people whose lives were altered. The excerpt that follows is taken from the first chapter of the novel.
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Mariam, a Lebanese Druze who has moved with her English husband to Kenya, returns for a brief stay in Beirut, the hometown she left fifteen years before. There, she must settle accounts of the past, take care of the house to which she is the sole heir since the death of her husband’s brother during the civil war, and revisit family history.
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In this essay from our Winter 2014 issue, Deputy Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar writes on female geeks and their fight to stay visible in an increasingly misogynistic arena.
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(I) I had to push my hands away from each other To push my eyebrows too The darkness said What do you hold…
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Omar Gilani talks about how pursuing engineering for nearly ten years helped him in his photorealism art. Many think the logistics of engineering don’t go with the fluidity of the creative arts – in this interview with Creative Director Moeed Tariq, Mr. Gilani turns the adage on its head.
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Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson wonders when the idea of the “high school sweetheart†morphed into the “chatroom sweetheart†or the “Facebook sweetheartâ€, or more generally just “the sweetheart I’ve only ever Skype’d withâ€.
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A special feature on Lebanese writers and poets and essays on the issue’s theme of sexual and emotional power plays rounds off this issue.
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As part of our offline activities for this year, we present writing workshops for young and mature writers alike in Islamabad, Pakistan. Writing samples are required for the 12 week course taught by the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.
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Reviewed by Jay Sizemore If you want a picture to hang on the idea of everything that is wrong with America, look no further…
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The Missing Slate’s film team, joined by other editors, review the year in film, picking the one film that stood out for them in 2013. What were your picks?
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