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

Palestine on the Precipice? For Arabs on the other side of the fence, Palestine has always had that unique quality of being very near and

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A Season of War This is a season of war: here in the Fertile Crescent, there in the North and Horn of Africa, in Europe