Layla Nassar

Beirut / London

Layla Nassar is a writer, essayist and documentary filmmaker whose work traverses memory, displacement, and the Arab female body. Her prose has been described as “surgical yet lyrical” — a cartography of grief made luminous.

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Published on HANEEN
Narrow medina street in Marrakech with orange vendors and mopeds

FICTION

Bahr Al-Dhikra: Sea of Memory

To walk through an Arab city is to be educated by the senses before the mind has a chance to form an opinion. Colour comes first — then smell, then sound, layered and without hierarchy.

Narrow medina street in Marrakech with orange vendors and mopeds

ESSAY

The Grammar of Colour: A Walk Through the Living Cities of the Arab World

To walk through an Arab city is to be educated by the senses before the mind has a chance to form an opinion. Colour comes first — then smell, then sound, layered and without hierarchy.

Narrow medina street in Marrakech with orange vendors and mopeds

INTERVIEW

"The Archive is Always Political": A Conversation with Kamel Daoud

To walk through an Arab city is to be educated by the senses before the mind has a chance to form an opinion. Colour comes first — then smell, then sound, layered and without hierarchy.