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[This article is translated into English from an article published by the Jadaliyya Arabic Page Editors.

On 6 June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. Advertised to the world as Operation Peace for Galilee, its actual code name was Operation Big Pines. It also had nothing to do with the Galilee. Rather, it constituted then-Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon’s attempt to remake the Levant in Israel’s image...

What does it mean to bear witness to events? What responsibility does the act of witnessing carry? These are the central questions evoked by George Azar and Mariam Shahin’s documentary film “Beirut Photograph..

City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982. The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 22 February – 5 May 2012.

City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982 is an exhibit of design ..

[For my comrades and poetry aficionados: Fawwaz Trabulsi and Mayssun Sukarieh, and for Raza Mir.]

Reading Faiz in Beirut.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) is one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20^th century. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, Faiz came of age under coloni..

We went back to Hama after our first post-massacre visit. Three weeks later, the magnitude of destruction had become more apparent. 

The Kilani district had been flattened, and a brick wall was being built ar..

[The below post was sent to us by an author that has asked to remain anonymous and only identified as Hamwia due to safety considerations regarding relatives in Hama and other parts of Syria.]

A young man, studying medicine, was alone in his apartment. When the soldiers barg..