One summer day in the mid-1980s, in the very early hours of the morning, I sat waiting on the porch of our Shmeisani

If there is still a Levant in 2122, will its inhabitants scour the minutiae of our lives with the same keenness we search for those

In this post, I shall meander simply because I want to.
My first time in Cairo was in 1974. On the drive from the airport

Writing This Arab Life was the first time I sat down to make prose of my emotions.
And only when I finished the manuscript did

Since 2019, when the Lebanese experiment officially unraveled, the topic of conversation among the chattering class has been about the shape of the coming collapse.

Last week was momentous for Lebanon. Our state, with the guiding hand and the blessings of Hezbollah, the resistance movement and political powerhouse, signed a