Reclaiming the Narrative
Features Editor Sana Hussain’s essay explores sexual power plays in Pakistani Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai’s short stories.
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Less than a Drop
Darkness damages desire / Living is less than a drop / Don’t waste your whole body / Now ~ By Bassam Hajjar
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The Curse
Hyam Yared’s ‘The Curse’ (La Malédiction), is the story of Hala, a young Lebanese woman born in 1970s Beirut who is stifled by her Catholic-school upbringing, coming of age while the country is under threat of Syrian invasion. This excerpt comes from pages 121-124 of the novel.
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Reading Lebanon, Reading the World
An introduction to the Lebanese literary feature By Marcia Lynx Qualey and Yasmina Jraissati Literary traditions from the area we now call Lebanon have…
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