Mai Ghoussoub—artist, writer, and co-founder of Saqi Books—commented widely on culture, aesthetics, and the Middle East, and published many books in English, Arabic, and French. Gathered here is a sel
Ghoussoub combines her own wartime immigrant experiences with a lively mix of imagination and reality. The result is deeply moving without being sentimental or even poignant, a sign that under the fli
Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In th
