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| Children of the Roojme : A Family's Journey from Lebanon University of Wisconsin 1997 (reprint edition) Lyrical memoir of the author's Lebanese-American family: their story from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to western Pennsylvania: the abandonment of centuries-old villages, and the New World conflict between cultural tradition and assimilation, while also telling about those left behind in Lebanon. |
| La Fracture Eddif 1999 The story of the Lebanese war, and the story of the author's exile. How does one rebuild himself a life, where can one identify himself and find himself ? |
| KITAR AL-NADA; MIN AHLAM AL-HOURRIYAT ILA MANAZIL AL-THULL Riad el-Rayyes books 2001 Short stories written by Imad Al-Abdallah from his memories of Lebanon throughout the years of the civil war and after. |
| Den of Lions : Memoirs of Seven Years Mass Market Paperback Reprint edition 1994 Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent tells his memoirs of physical and psychological deprivation and hardship during the 7 years as a hostage of Hezbollah. |
| Terre blanche, Journal d'un Otage au Liban Fayard - le Sarment 2001 The testimony of a professor of philosophy who spent 15 months as a hostage in a 2m2 cell, and analyzed as a 'professional' his own reactions and thoughts. |
| Khamsin Albin Michel 1994 A true story about the sad destiny of an Arab woman in Lebanon. |
| Moukawimat [Resistant] (arabic, english) Saqi Books, 2000; french ed. J.-C. Lattès (Lattes), 2001 2000, 2001 The testimony of Souha Beshara who spent 10 years in the 'khiam' prison, telling about her personal convictions that helped her survive through torture and isolation. |
| A Parish of Rich Women Merle Collins, Marlowe & Company; 1998 (reprint) A young British journalist comes back to England after an assignment in Lebanon but decides to return to Lebanon now under siege by the Israeli army after being disappointed with "his friends and their aimless world of chatter and heroin". "Two societies at the point of collapse: England clinging desperately to the wreckage of its history and Beirut under bombardment". |
| Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 The University of California Press 1982 Account of the 1982 Israeli invasion. And of an agony in which time itself is the subject of meditation. |
| Le Martyr du Liban Plon 1976 The author, a reporter from the 'Figaro', tells about the tragedy he witnessed in the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. |
| Le Liban d'où je viens Buchet Chastel (Documents) 2000 The author, an architect and a town planner, tells about his country occupied by Syria and Israel, about the reconstruction of Beirut and the huge amounts of money it is costing. |
| Le Bonheur Bleu Dar An-Nahar 2002 "Le bonheur Bleu" relates the author's suffering; she was wounded by a shrapnel at the age of 11; her life became then a daily struggle against physical pain and despair. |
| Splendide Solitude L'Hexagone 2001 Through this voyage in the depth of her intimacy, the author lays bare her femininity and her solitary woman's soul. |
| Liban, Mémoires du Temps Dar An-Nahar 1998 Sincere account and well documented analysis on Lebanon. |
| Le Retour à la Vie Librairie Antoine 1997 This work is an expression of Lena Freiha's feelings and state of mind throughout her sufferings caused by a violent husband; aiming to help other women to overcome their physical and spiritual pain. |
| Besieged : A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut Olive Branch Press 1991 Giannou's account of his later years (1985-1988) at a Palestine Red Crescent facility in Beirut's Shatila refugee camp as a surgeon, where he witnessed atrocities by the Israeli Defense Forces during their military action. |
| The Root : The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984 Pacifica Military History 1993 A 'detailed account of individual rescue effort, with an emphasis on the August through October 1983 period" written from the viewpoint of the Marines who fought in Beirut. |
| De Beyrouth à Jenine : Quatorze Soldats Israeliens racontent La Fabrique 2003 A collection of testimonies of Israeli soldiers evoking the beginning of the conflict in 1982. Each one tells his personal story and his opinion concerning the operations. These accounts give precious information on the first months of the conflicts, particularly marked by the massacres committed by the Phalangists under the control of the Israeli army in the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. |
| From Israel to Damascus Pride International Publications Inc. 1999 The author of this book known as Cobra, now a political refugee in France, brakes 'the code of silence about the unacceptable, the world of tragedy, corruption, crime and darkness under which Lebanon exists today' through the story of Elie Hobeika -whose bodyguard he used to be- and his rise to power in the Lebanese government. |
| Beirut God's Boot Camp Publish America Inc. 2002 The true account of the time of a young U.S. Marine in Beirut -" one of the most hostile cities in the world, during one of its most tumultuous times, in the mid to late 1980’s"- at his new post: The U.S. Embassy. |
| My war diary : Lebanon June 5-July 1, 1982 South End Press 1984 The author -a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces- tells about what he saw of he effects of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on the civilian population. |
| La guerre du Liban P. Belfond 1980 Antoine Jabre, ambassador of Lebanon in the USSR, tells about his Russian acquaintances and his own war in the USSR to 'save' his country. |
| Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman Sharpe, M.e., Inc., 1998 Fay Afaf Kanafani's autobiography as an Arab Muslim woman born in Beirut in 1918: experiences in Lebanon and Palestine from World War I to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. |
| Lezardes Sud Editions-Tunis 1999 The story of a Lebanese girl since she was 14 living in war torn Beirut, then her life in South Lebanon, until she became a 'resistant' and was caught by the 'enemy' while attempting an 'operation'. |
| Cicatrices 1989 The painter Therese Khabsa, during the war, remembers Lebanon before the war. |
| L'obus Siffla Mercure de France 2001 The author recalls comical memories from her childhood during the Lebanese war. |
| Women of Lebanon: Interviews With Champions for Peace McFarland & Co 1997 Interviews with 42 Lebanese women - from arts and literature, education, government, law, social work, the media, business and medicine - who, despite seventeen years of civil war, successfully protected their natural heritage and helped to restore order within their society. |
| De Saint-Pétersbourg à Aïn el-Mreissé Dar An-Nahar 2003 The author tells her family's story, Russian aristocrats who had to leave their country in 1917 revolution, and came to live in Lebanon. |
| For Brian's sake: the story of the Keenan sisters Blackstaff Press 1991 (1st edition) A record of the achievement of the two sisters of Brian Keenan who was taken hostage in Beirut in 1986, in having their brother released after four and a half years. |
| Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir Persea Books 1990 Beirut Fragments is a personal portrait of life in a torn city -Beirut- during 15 years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. |
| Bound to Forgive. The Pilgrimage to Reconciliation of a Beirut Hostage Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame 1995 Martin Jenco tells his memories as a hostage of Shiite Muslims for 19 months in Beirut, through events, circumstances, and people, 'intertwining his own struggle with loving the unlove-able and forgiving those who captured and tortured him'. |
| Anine Al'Ghadab Dar An-Nahar 1999 The author tells about what he saw of the sufferings the Lebanese people went through because of the war. |
| Between Extremes Black Swan 2000 The authors, -Irish poet and writer Keenan and British journalist McCarthy-, who spent four years in a Beirut prison together, wrote separate accounts of their shared incarceration. |
| Les Larmes de la Colère Presses de la Renaissance 1991 The author, reporter for France Inter and France Info and correspondent in Beyrouth since 1982, relates in this account which is the result of a long on-the-ground investigation, the complexity of the Lebanese drama through the true story of a Lebanese young woman. |
| Même les Tueurs Ont Une Mère La Table Ronde 1986 An interview with Marwan, a 26 years' old killer. The account of his passage from being a peaceful carefree adolescent to his becoming a militiaman whose only profession was death during 'the collective madness' of the Lebanese conflict. |
| Mon père m’attendait à Manille Ed. Robert Laffont 2001 The testimony of Marie Moarbes, a French-Lebanese 32 years' old single young woman who was kidnapped along with a group of tourists in Malaysia in 2000. Without water or food, or hygiene, but thanks to her knowledge in first-aid, as well as her tough character and her humour, she will learn a great lesson of courage -hers as well as her 75 years' old father's who went to Manilla to save her- that will give a new meaning to her life. |
| Clandestin (french) Balland 1998 Memoirs of the author: his souvenirs with his family and a testimony of his life in his social surrounding, being a Jew in The Middle-East region. |
| Lebanon: Four Journeys to the Past Dar An-Nahar 1998 "Travelogues, autobiography and history into four short stories. From the bleak present and the gloomy depths of the [Lebanese] Civil War (1975-90), the author reminisces about the "beauty, magic, mystery," and the "enchantment" of Lebanon." |
| Victime et Bourreau Calmann-Levy 1989 A Lebanese journalist avenges the death of both his murdered sons. |
| Out of Place: A Memoir Vintage Books 1999 Said's memoirs are powerfully informed by his sense of 'always being out of place' personally, geographically, and linguistically. |
| L'an prochain à Tibériade: lettres d'une jeune Palestinienne du Liban à un ami français Albin Michel 1996 Ten long letters in which Racha, a young Palestinian, relates her daily life in Lebanon, throughout the war. |
| Tair A'la Sindiyana [A Bird on an Oak] Al-Shuruk House 2002 The autobiography -written at age 73- of one of the most respected Lebanese historians and social-political thinkers, detailing his experiences and travels. |
| TAIR AALA SINDIYANA Al-Shuruk House 2002 The autobiography -written at age 73- of one of the most respected Lebanese historians and social-political thinkers, detailing his experiences and travels. |
| Vendredi, dimanche Actes Sud/Sindbad (Mémoires de la Méditerranée) 1996 Through the account of his memoirs in Tripoli -Lebanon- in the 1950s. and 1960s., the author tells about the fate of the Mediterranean cities still haunted by a past that's threatened by a much desired but fearsome modernity. |
| A Livres Ouverts: Une Vie de Souvenirs Dar An-Nahar 1998 How does a human being, wherever he comes from, and wherever he is, build an identity and shapes self and others' awareness. |
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