“Limbo Beirut″ is a demand that the reader ″balance in the uneasy space between being a voyeur and a participant, gratifying our desire to get inside the head of that stranger we meet on the street…but on the other hand surprising us with the fact that you can never just be a witness, that you′re always going to somehow become involved in the other′s life, whether you mean to or not.″
“I cannot really imagine how such academic book can be that dangerous because of examining the erotic experience in the modern Arabic poetry?”
Among the authors on Jraissati’s fall list, only Dima Wannous doesn’t have a book in English translation.
“Seven of the writers read in English and one in Arabic: Mishka Mourani, Jehan Bseiso, Reem Rashash Shaaban, Marina Chamma, Kathy Shalhoub, Doyle Avant, Mohamad Shami, and Rewa Zeinati.”
“You’re welcome, oppressed women everywhere.”
“If there were a light inside my belly and I could look up my hole, I would check for you if it’s a boy or a girl and let you know!”
“Help me
Let there be in me all poets
Because the charge is greater than my two hands”
“He shifted about, lifted his head tepidly, and pitched it inside my neck, whispering that I was his feral cat, roaming city streets leading to the sea, wandering in the rain through the mud and the biting cold, and coming back to him at night wet, hungry, and in search of warmth.”
“History does not say who we are by itself—we make it say that. Historical events are the clay that we shape according what we need, think, and believe.”
“We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom.
“We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”
“Instead, there is cake.”
“‘A Cup of Rage’ is set on the farm of an immigrant Lebanese family in Brazil.”
