Mai Ghoussoub : Selected Writings

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 selection of her finest writings - on war (in the Middle East and elsewhere), the sexist gaze, censorship, Abu Ghraib, the city, and art's encounter with tragedy - laced throughout with Ghoussoub's signature humor and an enduring sense of humanity. Mai Ghoussoub (1952 - 2007), artist, author, playwright, and founding director of Saqi Books, was born in Lebanon and moved to London in 1979, during the Lebanese civil war.