We drive all the way to Rumiyyeh, somewhere in the mountains, somewhere close to Eley3at… way up to where the air is far from Beirut’s polluted humidity… We come by an attractive looking restaurant, we decide to grab a coffee and continue exploring elsewhere. She welcomes us in warmly; a women in her late 30’s, [...]

Behind a ludic title that could lead our imagination to Hollywood, unreality and imagination, “De Niro’s game” is nothing but the coarse reality of the fall of a country which citizens either drowned into the mud of civil war or left searching for a better place.
My first literature experience in Canada was a book written [...]

“Coeur toujours tu m’interesses”. “Heart you will always interest me”.
It actually doesn’t mean that much in English, but in French it is derived from the saying “Cause toujours tu m’interesses” - otherwise translated as “I don’t care about you anymore”. You will understand the double-entendre of these two statements and how they are very much [...]

“Origins”, one of the latest books of Amin Maalouf, is a quest towards self realization through filling the gaps of one’s own ancestral stories. Rania is giving us a short review of this book with an analysis on why she thinks Lebanese Expatriates (or to-be expatriates) should be reading this book.
At the sudden death of [...]