Dimitri Nasrallah | The Walrus

Illustration of a bear standing on its hind legs. It is wearing a muzzle on its head and its eyes are glowing. Behind it, a fire is burning against a dark night.

July/August 2020 / Memoir

Dancing Bear

June 18, 2020December 8, 2020 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

In this memoir, a child and his family leave Lebanon for Athens

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Two people sit at a library desk on stage.

September 2019 / Theatre

A Controversial Playwright Takes on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

Eight years ago, Wajdi Mouawad left Canada after his plays faced censure and cancellation. Now he’s back

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Michael Ondaatje looking into the distance

What Does Michael Ondaatje Have Left to Say?

June 11, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

The iconic writer’s new novel aims to be timeless, but it may simply be out of touch

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Courtesy of THE CANADIAN PRESS/CP

The Case for Reading Quebec’s Most Reclusive Author

October 5, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

Réjean Ducharme was brilliant, influential, and mostly invisible to English Canada

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Photograph by amira_a

Lost City

January 29, 2016April 5, 2017 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

How Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari recreated what settlement projects destroyed

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Illustration by Juan Pablo Mejía

David Bowie’s Final Message

January 11, 2016August 31, 2019 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

He will forever be ahead of his time, where he rightfully belongs

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