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In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War, Aref El-Rayess's Dima' wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom) opened to the public in the exhibition hall of the L'Orient newspaper headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, a realist mural painting on canvas, was the exhibition's centerpiece. With this artwork, El-Rayess declared his commitment to national liberation and socialist revolution. The Changing of Horses was presented and received as an allegory of political commitment, but the slips, silences, and repetitions in the public reception point to its excessive, disturbing, and fundamentally uncanny character. In the first comprehensive study of the work, Natasha Gasparian weaves together a social art history from the artist's writings, exhibition reviews, guestbook comments, personal correspondences and testimonies, as well as social, political, and aesthetic shifts, particularly as they related to the debates on commitment (iltizam) in the aftermath of the June 1967 war. By attempting to reconstruct this history of the artwork and tracing the caesuras in the discourse around it, Gasparian exposes the social antagonism that is repressed and obfuscated in the idealized narrative sustained by El-Rayess and his audiences. She argues that the oversight in the reception - the critics' and audiences' inability to see - attests to the delay in grasping the work historically and signals its avant-gardism.

Painting, Lebanese. --- Lebanese painting --- El-Rayess, Aref.

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My food tells my story and the love for my heritage. Zo simpel is het. In Beirut Nights gunt chef China Bazzi ons een blik in de keuken van ‘haar’ Libanon. Met gerechten die generaties overleven en dagelijkse favorieten is dit de ‘Sesam open u’ die de culinaire Libanese hype moeiteloos verklaart. Ghina Bazzi maakt authentieke recepten toegankelijk, because nobody complained a good dish was too simple to prepare, ever. Dit is Libanese home cooking in praktijk, een boek voor een tafel vol lekker eten. Maar zonder de voorafgaande keukenstress en zonder de lege stoel die hier te vaak mee gepaard gaat: hier schuift de kok van dienst elke keer mee aan tafel. Dit kleurrijke boek ademt de kenmerkende stijl van de chef: innemend, in geuren en kleuren, vol- schwung en enthousiasme. Een kookboek? Zeer zeker. Een koffietafel-exemplaar voor zij die liever eten met hun ogen? Zonder twijfel. Een andleiding voor een memorabele avond à la Beirut’s Golden Age? Neem het van ons aan: plan alvast een avond in je agenda! Dit boek is er om eentje om te hebben en (van) te houden. De in Libanon geboren en in België getogen Ghina Bazzi is een van de zeldzame ladychefs die de drill van internationale sterrenrestaurants als jonge twintiger trotseerde.

Housekeeping --- Cooking [Lebanese ]

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Les deux recueils rassemblés dans ce volume, comme tous les précédents, fondent en une émouvante alchimie le quotidien le plus proche et son mystère. Ils font entendre, dans leur lyrisme toujours aussi tendre et généreux, un son plus grave, donnant sa part à la mort qui rôde, familière. Cette poésie est grande parce que sans équivalent dans son art d’unir le chant à l’image insolite et concrète comme aussi dans sa manière de faire entendre, sans ostentation ni proclamation, la voix de femmes qui inventent leur destin entre tradition et insoumission.

Lebanese poetry (French)

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"Shifting the Silence breaks the taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short, unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan grapples with the breadth of her life at ninety-five, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own approaching death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, the ongoing war in Syria, Mars missions, and Adnan's view of the sea out of her window in Brittany in a poignant, often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic"--Publisher's description.

Lebanese American women --- Death

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French literature --- Lebanese literature (French) --- French literature. --- Lebanese literature (French)