The Old Amman and its il-Madineh At a small dinner party a few years ago in Beirut, I met George Arbid, then professor of Architecture

Return to Hadath “ Ya, madame,” he shouted from the third floor balcony. I think I finally heard him the third time around. “ My

As The Lebanese Elites Play House… When the 2019 protests in Lebanon began to fizzle, a few of us sat over dinner discussing what might

“Lina, My Little Muslim Friend” Last week, a Lebanese friend of mine, whom I shall call Samira, went with her daughter and granddaughter to the

What’s in A century? I am not sure how many of us Arabs are aware that, in 1920, our Levantine forefathers were the authors of

Lebanon’s Cemeteries of People and Ideas “Parking lots are mass graves here.” It took some time to move past researcher Malena Eichenberg’s words.  I was