May 2025

You’re looking at a 1963 photo of the poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qassem listen to the novelist Tawfik Fayyad, pipe in mouth, read from his novel, The Deformed.

You’re looking at a well camouflaged Lebanese girl during the 2019 protests write on one of Beirut’s columns: dawlet ‘arsat: a state of crooks. I am using a euphemism here. A more accurate translation would be degenerates, pimps even.