Carla Calargé is Professor of French and Francophone studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her monograph Liban. Mémoires fragmentées d’une guerre obsédante (Brill 2017) examines the anamnesis of the (civil) war as expressed in Lebanese cultural production between 2000 and 2015, and her latest articles examine the Lebanese cultural production in the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut on August 4th, 2020.