Paola Daher The easy answer would be that we pick up our pens or switch on our computers to “give a voice to the voiceless”, to enable people to speak through our ink, but that would just be a bit too easy and above all, would lack honesty. Writing, for all the altruism giving it [...]
Deema Kaedbey Remember the day we sat on a rock by the beach, transfixed by the waves, sipping our beers. And you made me promise the sea, out loud, that I would write more often. And so I write this, enamored as I am with your stories, your words, your knowledge. Lately, I’ve been writing [...]
Dima Karam Here again. Another trip out gets me back to this coast. But the feeling doesn’t seem to want to fly away. Coming back it seems like this “thing” is irremediable; like a current that continuously pulls you away from the coast. I see friends I miss to eagerly share stories of what I [...]
While the five-stars are fully booked and the festivals are making bank and all of Hamra seems intent on a path of self-mutilation whereby each newly redundant bar tries its best to further lower the age demographic, we sit here, silent, sated by the sun, stunned by the reality that no one – not even us – really cares.
