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Visiting Enemies: On Walking the Streets of Beirut
Atalwin Pilon is currently on a trip around the world. This is his latest dispatch. To read more about Atalwin’s travels, check out his archive. It is amazing what a good meal can do. I find myself in...
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Bearing Witness in Beirut
I am starting to realize that the countries I choose to visit make it impossible not to think about conflict. Reading that sentence makes my laugh. How ignorant can a human being be? I went from Athens...
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You Should Really Open Up
Atalwin Pilon is currently on a trip around the world. This is his latest dispatch. To read more about Atalwin’s travels, check out his archive. Beirut, Libanon. Goodmorning! It is 7 in the Sunday...
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From Opera to Vampire Weekend: My Musical Explorations with Son
Tsach Gilboa and his now teenage son each got to pick their favorites to watch on a musical journey together. Here is what they explored. —- Just yesterday my son was a slice of heaven in a diaper....
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It Took Living on the Inside to See Jarheads As Individual Marines—And How...
“Many were eighteen, and I was someone who might have known them socially, in another place and another time.” ______ I was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps...
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These Hurting Souls Deserve Some Peace
View image | gettyimages.com Terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, and other places have left many people in deep pain. Don’t they deserve some serenity? — The images say it all. Two people looking for...
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Bourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-Barajneh Beirut is burning but all eyes turn to la tour Eiffel, thirty years older than mandates leaving French to echo through Lebanon’s streets. Echoes like bomb blasts screams...
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Jon Hamm Is A CIA Operative Negotiating With Terrorists In ‘Beirut’
Join The Good Men Project Community. “Here’s the thing about The Good Men Project. We are trying to create big, sweeping, societal changes—–overturn stereotypes, eliminate racism, sexism, homophobia,...
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Tim Murphy on How He Drew from His Queer and Arab Identities To Craft His...
— Correspondents is reminiscent of works like Michael Cunningham’s Flesh and Blood, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, and Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; it is truly a delight to read...
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I Remember: Lebanon Through Five-Year-Old Eyes
Five years old. I remember the Mediterranean. Gliding over it. Stepping out the airplane, the smell of the sea’s salt and olive groves filling my nostrils. Hugging grandpa, the grinning man I had never...
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