Books and writing references

The author relates his experience of the civil war in Lebanon during a visit made to Beirut in November 1980, describing the chaos and the violence, but also life and love.

Young Zena and her best friend Maya try to make sense of their lives amidst the craziness of Lebanon’s war, grief and love affairs, husband hunting and cosmetic surgery.

This work, including a collection of articles by the author who was a reporter in Lebanon and photographs taken by Chris Steele-Perkins, tells about life in besieged Beirut from June to September 1982.

A novel about a man who discovered a city hidden under Beirut and settled there, haunted by memories of an absurd conflict. He ends up resurfacing but decides to keep the underground city a secret…

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 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.

The history of Lebanon, culminating with the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, and its aftermath.

A emotional account of every day life in post-war Lebanon.

A story of a childhood in Lebanon in the 1980s through the words and angle of view of a little girl to whom war is close yet almost invisible, only “apparent” through distant sounds of explosions.

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

This book tells about Lebanon and France, about silence after a war, rumor inside hearts, and the sound of fury in the lives of those like us.

An overwhelming account of life in Lebanon; the derisory and inhuman nature of events.

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.”

Study of old and new centers, close and far-off outskirts, in the East and the West parts of the city Beirut; through an analysis of the economic, strategic, political and territorial tools in the hands of the perpetrators of these transformations, and an analysis of the family and business networks, the social and space mobility which are also issues that have marked this evolution.

Lebanon's challenge: to create, before it's too late, space for all, where expressing one's differences wouldn't destroy, every time, the basis of social interaction.

A work on the archological searches in Beirut that are limited to a very small surface compared to the suraface that was destroyed by bulldozers, describing Solidere's harrassment and blackmailing.

The author’s childhood and adolescence memories in war-torn Beirut, until she left Lebanon in 2006, are marked with constant fear and hard life, but also with happy moments that helped to forget the raging war.

A study of Lebanese culture and politics through a story set in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba, recounting the saga of the author’s family.

An assessment of the human losses during the Lebanese Civil War, as well as the loss in education and culture, economic losses, and the forces migrations of the population inside and outside the country.

The House of Mathilde, where all the events are almost a copy and an effect of the events of war happening all over Lebanon.

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

South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War.

A love story between a Christian Lebanese man and an English woman in war-torn Lebanon. A Muslim extremist. And a story about the 'arrow of time'

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'.

After the 16 year-old Lebanese war: prospects for Lebanon's communal representation system and pluralistic society.

A unique graphic memoir of a terrible war.

A unique graphic memoir of a terrible war.

A novel about a man who discovered a city hidden under Beirut and settled there, haunted by memories of an absurd conflict. He ends up resurfacing but decides to keep the underground city a secret…

The author -an agronomics engineer- examines the agro-economic and social problems that have led the Lebanese farmers to produce plants for drugs, and proposes solutions in order for other cultures to replace the latter and that will put to good use the lands of the Bekaa in particular.

A novel set in the early 20th century, relating the adventures of a Lebanese young man, crossing the Nile, Arabia and Syria with his caravan until he reaches the snows of Mount Lebanon.

A taxi driver, raised in a circus, roving through a crime-ridden nightmarish city of carnivalesque beauty and ugliness, introduces us to the colorful characters entering his taxi.

A taxi driver, raised in a circus, roving through a crime-ridden nightmarish city of carnivalesque beauty and ugliness, introduces us to the colorful characters entering his taxi.

A taxi driver, raised in a circus, roving through a crime-ridden nightmarish city of carnivalesque beauty and ugliness, introduces us to the colorful characters entering his taxi.

This is the story of a small Lebanese village that only included a few tourist shops until families gradually settled during the civil war, and of its multi-confessional inhabitants.

This story, at once a memoir and a fiction, set in the period from 1960s to the late 1980s, chronicles the decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society through the stories of different characters faced with social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichés.

An analysis of family justice in Lebanon which highlights the tension between the judicial individualization of penalty and the collective nature of conflicts.

During the last days of the Lebanese Civil War, a young lebanese man dying, writes a letter to Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese novelist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature and killed himslef in 1972; creating/imagining a dialogue with him about dying, free will and the value of memory.

A report of a study on child rearing in Lebanon as a basic instrument to understand Middle Eastern culture.

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.

Three tales: the story of two love-birds who cure the King's daughter; the story of a big and poor family saved from starving to death by a donkey and a bee; the story of a young flutist who kicks the ogre out of the village where he used to scare everyone.

In autumn 2001, the author, as a journalist would do, went on a trip to the Arab world; he visited, amongst other countries, Egypt and Lebanon. He tells about their people from the inside, through their daily realities, their contradictions, their diversities; In order to fight against this preconceived idea of a 'clash of civilizations', the difference of these Arab societies.

The painter Therese Khabsa, during the war, remembers Lebanon before the war.

Whether the 'guardians of identity' like it or not, The Arabic cinema isn't anymore uniquely and necessarily made in the Arab World. It is also under African, European, American influence.

'A study of civic culture as a comprehensive operation including educational institutions, the family, life-long friends, the environment, civil society and the media', 'and all those who are yearning for renewed consideration of public issues after so much suffering and so many ordeals.'

Analysis of the history of human strife and political violence in Lebanon which is 'now at crossroads in its process of political and social transformation'.

The author -a British journalist- tells the story of the Lebanese Civil War (1975 to 1992) 'noted for massacres, treachery, atrocities, kidnapping, assassination, changing alliances of convenience, and invasion' through its chronology, the prelude to it, and the post-war 'National Survival.

"This report exposes the inherent fragility of the informal, unwritten "undertandings” between Israel and Hizballah, that, rather than serving to protect civilians -civilian populations of Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel- have created a situation in which civilians are caught in a web of retaliatory violence and in which the killing of civilians has become the ultimate threat and expected response for any transgression of the understandings by either side.”

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.

Bilingual Anthology; an exclusively female view of arab poetry which 'reflects feelings of passionate equality, together with those of subtle, sharply witty superiority all of which are directed towards their menfolk 'with a 'compelling significance of the religion and politics of the times and the blazing independence of these women.'

On a cold winter day in Montreal, an immigrant thief is rescued from committing suicide and has to attend therapy sessions, leading us back to his violent childhood in a war-torn country, then into his current immigrant life-on-the-edge, where he sees himself as a cockroach invading the lives of others.