Words without borders!

This month’s issue on contemporary Lebanese writing portrays a country shot through with menace and strafed with violence. But this Lebanon—grounded in an ancient culture both lyrical and fabulistic—features gardens alongside its guns, and even as characters flee monsters real and imagined and struggle with quotidian terror, they embrace moments of reflection and beauty. Etel Adnan, Mai Ghoussoub, Joumana Haddad, Mazen Kerbaj, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Amin Maalouf, Alexandre Najjar, Selim Nassib, and Salah Stétié post bulletins from both political and personal frontlines. We trust you’ll find their dispatches as compelling as we do.


I-myself- highly recommend Mazen Kerbaj´s caricature (see above). As a matter of fact, it summarizes much of what you might call in Portuguese the alma libanesa-if there is such a thing anyway!
Enjoy,

Michel