Crossed Looks – Namsa Leuba event the first major book on

the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity

elegiac and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé

In this issue we honor the many faces of the rain -- and of its attraction and repulsion of its rhythms and power for poets

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Crossed Looks – Namsa Leuba event the first major book onAccompanying the first solo exhibition of Swiss Guinean artist Namsa Leuba (born 1982) in the United States, Crossed Looks features Leuba's major projects to date, including photography series in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria and Benin, and the debut of a new series recently made in Tahiti. The exhibition and publication consider how Leuba's photographic practice explores the representation of African identity and the cultural Other in the Western