Mai Ghoussoub

Mai Ghoussoubis was a Lebanese artist, writer and publisher. She wrote numerous articles on culture and middle-eastern issues for international journals.

Beirut and contradiction: reading the World Press Photo award

World Press Photo of the Year 2006 ©Spencer Platt, USA, Getty Images | Reprinted by kind permission, World Press Photo Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 August

By Mai Ghoussoub

/ 18 Feb 2010

Penelopeia

Above and below: two sculptures by Mai Ghoussoub from the Penelopeia Project Below, two short essays by Mai describing the ideas and inspirations before and after her Penelopeia work Penelopeia:

By Mai Ghoussoub

/ 19 Feb 2007

Lebanon: slices of life

The war shook the Lebanese inside out. Now at rallies and parties, in art and life, with white anger and black humour - they are trying to make sense of

By Mai Ghoussoub

/ 31 Oct 2006

Who is serious?

The Washington Post sees the roots of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in a corrupted culture which violated the Geneva Conventions and (distorted) the rule of law; Human Rights Watch

By Mai Ghoussoub

/ 8 Jun 2004

Abu Ghraib: I do not know where to look for hope

All I can do is scream through my keyboard. Do the soldiers-torturers act with such abject cruelty out of racism? Racism is not enough to explain their behaviour, their abuse,

By Mai Ghoussoub

/ 9 May 2004