Books and writing references

These poems are an attempt to decipher the Arab Myths and Legends in order to understand their moral significance regarding the preislamic generations that elaborated them, but also towards today's generations.

This compilation of poems includes Rashid al-Daif’s “Heena halla al-sayf ‘ala l-sayf” (When the Sword Replaced the Sun) published in 1979; “La shay’an yafooq al-wasf” (Nothing is Above Description) published in 1980; and “Ayyu thaljin yahbut bi-salam” (What Snow ever Falls in Peace) published in 1992, about various issues but mostly about the woman/mother/lover, the earth, the peasant/cultivator/farmer, the war, and the homeland.

In this poetry collection, the author addresses issues concerning women and the Lebanese civil war, socially and historically, expressing pain and loss caused by her own separation from her nation, and asserting that the nation can begin its social transformation through expressing the erotic and accepting female sexuality.

Last collection of poems written by Nadia Tueni a few months before she died from cancer. They are a result of the personal ordeal of the author, and the sufferings of Lebanon during one of the most tragic periods of the war.

Poetry revisiting Beirut during the war with joyful words and colourful images.

Twenty-seven poems written by a student living in exile, illustrating her sentence on Beirut: ”Here, everybody wears a gold mask, that of appearances, to hide one’s own ruins.”

Poetry depicting life in Lebanon… the war, traditions, the relationship between men and women, and sexuality.

Separated into three sections, these poems tell how civil wars have erased from the memory of a people that created the alphabet even these letters created by their ancestors.

Poetry, literature, and thoughts about the life of the Lebanese people.

Desire that matures and deepens while remaining pure.

poems and landscape photographs about a 'crazy land' Lebanon.

The Zajal is a form of folkloric (sang) poetry with lyrics usually improvised on the spot by two groups facing each other; each one using one or a number of words the other group said to creating a duel. In this book the duel is between a man and a woman.

The magic created by words evoking reality.

Lively fresh oriental images and fables combining naïveté and wisdom..

Alain Tasso's poems accompanied by his painted calligraphy.

A poetry collection of very intense short texts full of thoughts, feelings, resentment, sensuality, violence, disgust, despair, tenderness, and passion depicting a bursted life.

The poems of this volume are selected from Andree Chedid's entire career (1949 to 1995) who describes her poetry as being "free of time and place," having no "geographical boundaries," and belonging to "all lands."

The author, 'bruised History and serious personal scars', has faced reality, through her poems and in real life.

Cultural, artistic and political Lebanon. Important people and events.

Pure love in its almost sacrificial aspect depicted in Jad Hatem's poetry dedicated to muslim mysticism that the author compares to jewish and chrisitan mysticism.

Deconstructed poetry reflecting destruction: the dislocations and outcries of the Arab World.

These were written between 1982 and 1998, the darkest period of the poet's life.

The author helps young readers discover nature : trees, birds, rivers, gardens, leaves, seasons.

The author wrote this poem while under the shock of the 1996 shelling of South-Lebanon by the Israeli; learning about it through news on television showing the images of Qana.

Poetry that leads the reader through the beauty of nature.

In this poem -that is also a story on society-, Abbas Beydoun honours his native village: describing: sea and mountains, peasants attracted to the city but then rejected by it, sailors . . nature and human nature.

The geography of exile: places that are at the same time real and unreal: orient landscapes in Venice and masks showing pain and love.

A collection of about 40 mostly brief poems that reflect personal reactions to, and musings about, the events of the Lebanese war.

Cities and villages, men and women, messages, memories, tragedies and hope of Lebanon.

Children, mother land, the mother, the Christian symbols.

Nadia Tueni's poetry on love, Lebanon, nature, death ...

The author illustrates with her poetry Xavier’s 49 sketches, both basing their work on the theme of pursuit: pursuing love, silence…

A meditation on the time that goes by, sets the rhythm of our lives and shapes us.

A collection of poems through which the author tells about love, yearning, hope, memory, resistance, injustice, and death.