Eric Reidy

Almost home

Eric Reidy 7 August 2019

Alia Malek’s often-powerful portrait of her Damascus home sheds light on the perils and pleasures of Syria’s pre-war society, but also leaves questions unresolved, writes Eric Reidy.

Beirut and the making of Anthony Bourdain

Eric Reidy 13 June 2018

Seeing Beirut slide into war in 2006 transformed the late TV presenter, moving him to humanize peoples—in the Middle East and beyond—whose voices were rarely heard in the US mainstream.

Portraits of Syria’s protagonists

Eric Reidy 28 February 2018

Rania Abouzeid’s forthcoming book, No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria, succeeds in humanizing the individual participants in Syria’s agony—victims as well as villains.

Almost home

Beirut and the making of Anthony Bourdain

Portraits of Syria’s protagonists

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.