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“Godless in the Land of Gods”
Note: This is the fourth in a series of five thematic Lebanon-related posts, based on a conversation between the author and a Lebanese citizen who preferred to remain anonymous. The first three posts...
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Ungrateful, Beirut
Beirut never asks you to come back to it. It entices you to and makes you come back out of your own volition. If Beirut were a person, it would be irresistibly charming, more than anybody you would...
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“From What Used to be My Window”
For as long as I have written about Lebanon, I have realized that the road toward change would need time and patience. I knew it would take a lot of time, but the more time passed, the more I ran out...
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“Liban : Messages Pour Un Pays”
Since all of us here in Lebanon are in revolutionary mode these days (67 days no less & counting), I’d like to tell you a small story: In 2014, and in the run up to the 40th anniversary of the...
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Stories in the Times of Corona
These are no ordinary times. I doubt anybody in their wildest dreams (even those behind movies that told a similar story to what is happening today) imagined that, a day would come when the world,...
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“And So We Drive On: Short Stories” Out Now
It’s here, finally. Finally, it’s here. Despite feeling rather hopeless as the world seems to be falling apart, especially in Lebanon, I couldn’t be happier to share with you the release of my first...
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One Month Since the Beirut Blast: “The Wound Will Always Stay Open”
It’s been one endless, torturous month already. One month since what were childhood nightmares of war exploded when we thought we were living in peace. One month since our lives came shattering down...
View ArticleSelective Writer’s Block: When Some Things Are Better Left Unwritten
“Darkness is oppressive. Silence echoes what I do not want to hear. Night is a curse that keeps on coming back. Night is the green screen onto which everything is projected, what I do not want to see...
View ArticleThe Good Old Days –أيام الزمن الجميل
“This living room used to be wider; this balcony used to be more spacious. Of course your love, ya habibi, was as big as the whole wide world.” – Fairuz, “It Wasn’t Like This.” In one of many songs...
View Article“Hope is a Dangerous Thing”
There was a time when everything I ever wanted was to be in Beirut, the beloved home, the enchantress of the Mediterranean, the city that – as the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism would once have it –...
View ArticleOn “Multilingual Learning” and “Beyond Shattered Glass”
Being a writer, one usually knows from the start what type of writer one wants to be, or at least strives to. General categories as academic, fiction, non-fiction or journalistic writing are fairly...
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