Wonder Beirut: The Story of a Pyromaniac Photographer

An exhibition of the Wonder Beirut project by creative partners Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige is on exhibit at CUAG until April 14th. The artists describe the project, which they worked on from 1997 to 2006, as "our production of postcards of war," inspired by the contrast between the touristy postcards and the reality of the city …

White Masks

Elias Khoury's novel al-Wujuh al-Bayda (1981), translated as White Masks, but literally White Faces, tells a story made up of many voices, all related to each other through one central character, Khalil Ahmad Jaber, and focused on Beirut. The novel is something of a murder mystery, structured through the narrator's investigation of this death and …

The Journey of Little Gandhi

Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi begins with the death of the hero in the first chapter, following which the storyteller, Alice, opens each of her stories in the remaining five chapters with a lament for his death. Alice said he died...Alice said she took him to the cemetry and she saw the people …