The Beiruter
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Arabic literature - French literature - Maronite identity - Maronite heritage - History of writing - Aladdin - Literature - Maronite - HistoryThe Maronite who gave the world Aladdin
A forgotten manuscript revealed Hanna Diyab, a Maronite from Aleppo, as the Christian storyteller whose tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba helped shape One Thousand and One Nights and became part of global culture.By Jenna Geagea -
Arabic literature - Gibran Khalil Gibran - Pen League - Lebanese identity - New York monumentLebanon’s greatest writers stripped of their identity
The labeling of Pen League pioneers including Gibran Khalil Gibran as “Syrian poets” on a New York monument has sparked outrage and renewed debates over Lebanese cultural identity and historical memory.
By Jenna Geagea
