Imaginaries from a Blackout

لوين بتروح الكهربا؟

Special Issue | Summer 2023

عدد خاص | صيف ٢٠٢٣

Al-Hadāmmah: Floods, Ecological Time, and the Modernization of Kuwait 

Rawan Alsaffar

Long Essay

Climate Vulnerability and Slow Violence in Kuwait

Geoffrey Martin and Mariam AlSaad

Photo Essay

Beekeepers’ Library

Joy Amina Garnett

Visual Essay

ملاحظات من وادي العين

جورج تادرس وترتيل مُعمر

قصة مصوّرة

Collective Valleys: Reclaiming Bisri’s Contested Landscape

Joude Mabsout

Long Essay

The Strike: Interrupting Power

Razaz H. Basheir

Long Essay

الكهرباء في المجتمع الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة: ممارسات الحياة اليومية وآليات الجَلَد والمقاومة المجتمعية

أباهر السقا

مقالة طويلة

Erasure and disembodiment as blackout: The case of Heliopolis, Cairo

Amira Elwakil

Photo Essay

Glass and Glare: Reflections on Balcony Glazing in Beirut

Aya Nadera Zantout and Meriam Soltan

Photo Essay

Desert of the Real: a visual travelogue about real and fictional infrastructures around Chott-el-Djerid / شط الجريد

Michel Kessler & Pierre Musy

Photo Essay

Remaining Cairo: Bridges, Fragments, and the Persistence of Memory

Zein Farhan

Poems

Community-Grown Maintenance Infrastructures: the Story of The Zabbalin

Marwa Shykhon

Visual Essay

Deliberate Institutional and Legislative Failures: On the Governmentality of Inefficient Infrastructure in Post-War Lebanon

Dima Abi Saab

Long Essay

Kinship Flows: Informal Infrastructure Economies in Beirut's Dahieh

Danah El Kaouri

Long Essay

The Landscape Beyond the Highway: Reclaiming the Depopulated Villages West of Jerusalem

Mira Idries 

Long Essay

Electricité du Liban: A Vertical Mazra'a

Iyad Abou Gaida

Visual Essay