Lebanon

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Through a Glass Brightly: Languages, Politics, and Contemporary Literature from Lebanon

By Olivia Snaije & Mitchell Albert

Lebanese literature preceding the civil war represented a friendly place, a land of milk and honey; the Mediterranean…” The war “swept all that away.”

The Night Post

By Hoda Barakat

I write my letter with no idea where to send it.

Translated from Arabic by Robin Moger

Checkpoint

By Jabbour Douaihy

He pleaded for him to believe him.

Translated from Arabic by Paula Haydar

Fairuz in My Grandfather’s Shop

By Lamia Ziadé

Fairuz was only to sing on stage.

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Painful Games

By Lena Merhej

A shattering pain, or intense euphoria

Translated from Arabic by Ghenwa Hayek

The Jewish Nose

By Sabyl Ghoussoub

I looked like a Jew, an Islamist, a Portuguese, an Iranian, an idiot.

Translated from French by Mitchell Albert & Olivia Snaije

After Midnight

By Charles Chahwan

“You need to take your clothes off,” she continued.

Translated from Arabic by Suneela Mubayi

Beyond Queer: The Queer Issue

By Susan Harris

The contributors to our Queer issues produce narratives that elude facile compartmentalization.

Mina

By Sahar Mandour

One day this violation will be in the past, consigned to oblivion, long forgotten.

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

In Praise of Nonconformity: The Queer Issue

By Susan Harris

Behind the bigotry and hyperbole lurk the fear of the unknown, the threat to the status quo.

She, You, and I

By Elham Mansour

What’s the point of love without suffering?

Translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Graphic Novels at WWB: The First Ten Years

By Susan Harris

The narrative threads that weave through the last ten years tell a tale in themselves.

from Le Piano Oriental

By Zeina Abirached

Fifteen years later, I was the one who left.

Translated by Edward Gauvin

Flapflap Blues

By Mazen Kerbaj

In the sky, never much. In the streets, always too much.

Translated by Mercedes Claire Gilliom

Solitary Confinement on the Seventh Floor

By Mazen Maarouf

One day / I’ll tear off my lips / and eat them / like candy.

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Nathalie Handal

Walt Whitman and Me: Notes on a Poetic Education

By Abdel-Moneim Ramadan

I was possessed by memory and forgetfulness and by Arabic poetry.

Translated from Arabic by Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar

We Have

By Mazen Kerbaj

We have nations that we don't want.

Translated from French by the author

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When did their language mingle with ours

By Vénus Khoury-Ghata

The female branches made off with the laundry on our lines

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

Multilingual

from “October 27, 2003”

By Etel Adnan

“Etel Adnan’s language takes the reader on passages that thread in and out of their own feelings, their own consciousness.”—Diana Abu Jaber

Translated from French by C. Dickson

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Lebanon

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Letter from Beirut: Writing as Memory in the “Capital of Amnesia”

Framing the Story: Six Graphic Narratives

Beirut Trilogy

Vienna

Through a Glass Brightly: Languages, Politics, and Contemporary Literature from Lebanon

The Night Post

Checkpoint

Fairuz in My Grandfather’s Shop

Painful Games

The Jewish Nose

After Midnight

Beyond Queer: The Queer Issue

Mina

In Praise of Nonconformity: The Queer Issue

She, You, and I

Graphic Novels at WWB: The First Ten Years

from Le Piano Oriental

Flapflap Blues

Solitary Confinement on the Seventh Floor

Walt Whitman and Me: Notes on a Poetic Education

We Have

When did their language mingle with ours

from “October 27, 2003”