Charles Glass

Letter from Mount Lebanon

“The demise of ancient antagonisms should be a reason for hope in this hopeless land, but it isn’t. Ehden’s tranquility does not hide the fact that peace is precarious here.”

Disenchantment and Devastation in Syria

The civil war may be over in Damascus, but the mood in the city is one of resignation.

Anything Can Happen

Notions of authorship, creator, and creatures, as well as of love, folly, and imagination, dominate Salman Rushdie’s and Ariel Dorfman’s retellings of Don Quixote.

Scheherazade in a Syrian Cell

Syria: A Savage Peace

Not Over Yet

Syria’s New Normal

In the Horrorscape of Aleppo

The destruction conjures memories of Dresden, Coventry, and Tokyo in the aftermath of World War II.

How Assad Is Winning

The war is far from over.

In the Syrian Deadlands

A brutal, unending ordeal

In the Syria We Don’t Know

How the Assad regime is surviving

Syria: On the Way to Genocide?

The war has reached the stage at which many on both sides no longer regard the others as human

Aleppo: How Syria Is Being Destroyed

Syria: The Citadel & the War

Query

Why Lebanon?