A Word from the Editor
Dear Readers, Some might argue that for an almost all-woman team of a magazine run by a woman, sexual and emotional power plays, such…
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June Rain
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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Other Lives
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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Losing My Fandom
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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The Atheists of Paris
(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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Spotlight Artist: Omar Gilani
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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Love, Liberty and Exploration: The New Century of Romance
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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Winter 2014 — “Sexual & Emotional Power Plays”
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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Spotlight Writer: Aamer Hussein
The author of “The Cloud Messenger” talks about “post-9/11” writing, what it means for emerging Pakistani writers and why he doesn’t believe he qualifies as one.
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Alone As I Am / Jaise Main Tanha Hun
From our ninth issue, a beautiful poem by Azra Abbas translated from the Urdu by Muhammad Umar Memon
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