The Iraq That Is Already Gone
Antoon's novel does not ask whether Iraq's Christians should stay or leave. It asks what it means to love a place that no longer exists.
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On Taste, As Instinct
IN GOOD TASTE with Karim Massoud
The Ghannouj Gazette
The incense reaches you before anything else. Then the silver salvers and goblets were arranged on a long table with the quiet confidence of objects that have been placed, then reconsidered, then placed again. Beirut Black Cat occupies a corner of
Who May Love Whom
The God of Small Things* is not a caste novel. It is a taxonomy of permitted feeling — and what is left of people who loved beyond their allocation.
Everything That Cannot Be Carried
On belonging, land, and what survives when a village is gone. A long-form essay on South Lebanon, displacement, and the persistence of identity.
The Child the Gulf Refused
The Bamboo Stalk* is not about racism. It is about the architecture of belonging — and who designs it.
The City That Wasn't There
On *The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu*, the manuscripts Europe needed not to exist, and the myth that outlasted everyone who went looking.
Good Enough to Stop Explaining Itself
A curated selection from the Gazette — a Paris market, a Danish farm, a Belgian restaurant, two kitchen tools, and a novel about appetite.
The Land Decides the Menu
He doesn't decide what to cook. He arrives at the market and waits to be told.
What a City Keeps
Cities Under Pressure — No. 1
On a Tuesday morning in Het Zuid, the cafés fill early. The neighbourhood sits in Antwerp's southern quarter like a held breath — wide streets, tall windows, the particular silence of a place that knows what it is and sees no reason to announce
Appetite Was Never Innocent
The Shelf — The Ghannouj Gazette
The salt cod on the Mary Rose in 1545 is not a curiosity. It is a supply chain. The fish was caught in Newfoundland, preserved in salt from the Atlantic coast, loaded onto a naval vessel, and consumed by men whose survival was the condition
From Somewhere Worth Being
A note from the editor on why the Gazette exists, and what we are paying attention to.