Sintia Issa

How would you explain this book to a child? I write about life and war, and how people make lives in war. I look at war as a habitable place where war is not something that happens to strange people in far-off elsewheres. I look at war, as you know, as home. So how do people live in war? What are their concerns on the day-to-day? When you live in war, your concerns aren’t only about death and dying; you’re mainly thinking about how to go on living, right?

If These Walls Could Speak If Tripoli's walls could speak, what would they say? “Our right to housing and sustenance, our right to education and freedom” is written on the wall of a building in “Mar Maroun” Street in Tripoli. Tripoli, Lebanon. May 15, 2022. (Fátima Fouad/The Public Source) On the road leading to El Mina’s clocktower, a wall reads, “I’ve loved you in a time bereft of job opportunities.” El-Mina, Lebanon. May 15, 2022.

Once upon an anti-colonial time, Al-Akhbar, a weekly newspaper of the Lebanese Communist Party, celebrated almost every new year, until it ceased publication in 1972, with a front page dedicated to local, regional, and international gains of the anti-colonial Left.