Lebanon

  • A photograph looking over the roof line at the city of Beirut at night

    My Childhood Bedroom

    By Loubna El Amine
    March 23, 2021 Loubna El Amine
    Beirut; Credit: George Azar A writer reflects on her relationship to home in Beirut. Why the windows of the room did not shatter from the August 4 explosion is still a mystery. The building…
  • 32 by Sahar Mandour

    Hayat (an excerpt from 32)

    August 14, 2014 Sahar Mandour
    A best-seller at the 2010 Arab Book Fair in Beirut, 32 follows the life of a young woman in her thirties, her four female friends, and a Sri Lankan domestic worker. The book sheds light o…
  • Protesters in Kiev

    Portraits of protesters, digital poetry, and more

    February 28, 2014 Kaitlin Hawkins
    Barricade with the protesters at Hrushevskogo street on January 26, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo Sasha Maksymenko/Flickr It was an exciting week for both World Literature Today and…

  • Follow the News

    August 28, 2013 Raha Namy
    In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…