Mai Ghoussoub--artist, writer, and co-founder of Saqi Books--commented widely on culture, aesthetics, and the Middle East, and published many books in English, Arabic, and French. Gathered here is a selection of her finest writings--on war (in the Middle East and elsewhere), the sexist gaze, censorship, Abu Ghraib, the city, and art's encounter with tragedy--laced throughout with Ghoussoub's signature humor and an enduring sense of humanity. Mai...