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Tag Archives: Ghassan Salhab
Ghassan Salhab: A little poem for nothing, for yesterday and for the days to come
From lundimatin, #522, 01/02/2026 and translated from the french only the olive tree, only the bread, only the thyme, only the oil,only the vine, only the word, only the dance, only the radiance,only the song, only the grain, only the … Continue reading
Ghassan Salhab: This name
PalestinianThis nameToday more than ever we must pronounce it, articulate it, utter itchant it, shout it, whisper it, sing itUntil our last breathThis name, this witnessBefore the night swallows it up forever I am writing these few words from Beirut, … Continue reading
Ghassan Salhab: Trompe-l’œil
From Lundi Matin #441, 02/09/2024. What if old words like ‘genocide’ (and why not ‘colonisation’) were false friends? What if the new technologies that subjugate our emotions when we think we’re expressing them were also betraying us? And what if … Continue reading
Ghassan Salhab: The Dawn?
From lundimatin, #409, December 27, 2023 … Do not believe that man grows up. No: he is born suddenly – a word, in an instant, penetrates his heart with a new pulse. It takes but one scene to make him … Continue reading
Je est un autre/I is another
From Beirut and the open and permanent crisis that Lebanon is undergoing, Ghassan Salhab evokes in this text the tide of homophobia and transphobia which has come to cover over, to continue and to prolong the ongoing disaster. Our very … Continue reading
Ghassan Salhab: If only one wall should remain
From lundimatin #389 (27/06/2023) … To revolutionise ourselves [Révolution sur nous-mêmes]. These three words appeared for the very first time in downtown Beirut, the last two words, about ourselves, had been added to the word revolution, which was already stencilled … Continue reading
Utopia?
Words of Ghassan Salhab, lebanese filmmaker and writer (from lundi matin #365 09/01/2023) … What remains to be said or done once everything has been said, analysed, dissected of the humiliation that power and its mechanisms represent for everyone? From … Continue reading
Lebanon: The state of things
From lundi matin #250, 23/07/2020 … Will the confinement and the ceasefire get the better of the Lebanese uprising? Will the omnipresence of security be able to bridge the chasm into which the population seems to sink deeper every day? … Continue reading
Ghassan Salhab: The Alter
From lundimatin #490, 01/10/2025 I am nothingand my words are fleetinglike me,among people but passing through, that is whyI speak of you. Bassam Hajjar Is it absolute madness that has taken hold of Zionism, driving this ideology born in the … Continue reading →