Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a State and Rise of a Nation
Theodor Hanf translated from German by John Richardson
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993
The war in Lebanon has been primarily a surrogate war over Palestine which escalated into a conflict between the diverse Lebanese communities. |
Comme si elle dormait
Elias Khoury
Novel
Actes-Sud 2007
The story of Milia depicts the profound conflicts of the 1947 Arab World: in order to “hide away” from her new husband and society, she lives in a dream-world where she converses with the dead and foresees the future, until this parallel realm becomes more familiar and easy to live with than "reality", and both become increasingly entangled. |
Communautés Villageoises et Migrations de Main-d'Oeuvre au Moyen-Orient. Trois Etudes d'Anthropologie Libanaise
Elisabeth Longuenesse, Gilbert Beauge, Michel Nancy
Memory, Identity, Society
CERMOC 1986
The immigrants from Lebanese villages working in the Golf area: their working relation with local intermediaries and labour in their working sites and factories. |
Compassion des Pierres
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Poetry
ed. La Différence (coll. Clepsydre) 2001
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. |
Compétences des Citadins dans le Monde Arabe
F. Abachi, A. Arrif, R. Bekkar, I. Berry-Chikhaoui, R. Cattedra, L. Chouikha, A. Deboulet, J.C. Depaule, O. Feneyrol, B. Florin, J.P. Frey, M. Janati, M. Mohalla, C. Miller, F. Bouchanine, N. Puig, L. Roulleau-Berger, S. Sfaxi, R. Boumedine, P. Signoles
Architecture and Urban Studies
CERMOC 2001
Urban fabrication of the city in the Arab World; through an analysis of the competence and the learning of citizens, and their implication in the construction and re-formulation of the city. |
Considérations sur le malheur Arabe
Samir Kassir
Memory, Identity, Society
Actes-Sud 2004
The author describes the cultural boom in the region during the 19th century followed by the impact of modernity that disrupted the Arab identity and led to political and intellectual stagnation in the Arab world. |
Constitution Libanaise et Accord de Taëf: Textes et Commentaires
Bechara Menassa
History Analysis
Les Editions l'Orient 1995
The Lebanese Constitution that has been the same for so long, the National Pact that governs cohabitation, harmony amongst the communities, both to which has been added the National Agreement written in Taef that goes back over the unwritten 1943 National Pact and the constitutional customs. |
Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives
Elise Salem
Memory, Identity, Society
University Press of Florida 2003
A study of 100 years of literary and cultural production, examining Lebanon's cultural and political evolution as a nation providing close readings of many Lebanese literary texts and plays written and produced during the Lebanese civil war and postwar period. This "work is also an urgent call to Lebanese and non-Lebanese people to study and engage with literary and cultural production in order to expand the ways in which we conceptualize Lebanon." |
Construction Identitaire et Appartenance Confessionnelle au Liban
Fabiola Azar
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan, Coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient 1999
A study of the consequences of sectarian belonging on the conflicts in Lebanese inter-relations. |
Contemporary Arab Women Writers and Poets
Evelyne Accad & Rose Ghuraeb
On Literature
Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Beirut University College 1985
An analysis of poetry and fiction works by Arab women living in the Middle East and Europe, written in Arabic or in French, reflecting their bi-cultural dilemma, around the issues of identity, egotism, and nationalism. |
Contes et Légendes du Liban: l'enfant des cèdres
Desiree Sadek Aziz
Tales
Albin Michel Jeunesse coll. contes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1995
Full of wisdom and respect for the environment, this story is a way of rebuilding hope in the souls of Lebanese children by telling about a child who covers Lebanon's mountains with cedars, while adults are fighting the war. |
Contes et Nouvelles du Liban
Edouard Azouri
Novel
Librairie Orientale 1999
Poetry, literature, and thoughts about the life of the Lebanese people. |
Contes et Nouvelles du Liban
Edouard Azouri
Poetry
Librairie Orientale 1999
Poetry, literature, and thoughts about the life of the Lebanese people. |
Contre-Marées
Tamirace Fakhoury
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 2000
Desire that matures and deepens while remaining pure. |
Coquelicot du Massacre
Evelyne Accad
Novel
L'Harmattan 1988
This novel is about the war in Lebanon and is accompanied by a cassette of songs she wrote and performed. |
Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
Novel
Norton, W. W. & Company Inc. 2003
Through this love story set in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles of thirty-nine-year-old Sirine who lived with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and worked as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, the author locates the reasons behind the financial and political success of Middle-East immigrants despite racism. |
Cultural Resistance: Global and Local Encounters in the Middle East
Samir Khalaf
Memory, Identity, Society
Saqi Books 2001
The author analyses the psychological, economic and social impact of the Civil War in Lebanon on communal identities, group loyalties and collective psychology. And highlights the failure of the Arab intellectuals concerning their role relatively to the socio-cultural and ideological transformations. |
Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982
John Boykin Foreword by George Shultz
History Analysis
Applegate Press 2002
This book details the American role in trying to moderate Sharon's siege of Beirut in 1982 -that ended up in causing the death of thousands of Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese civilians-. It is the story of how the American diplomat Philip Habib raced to conclude Sharon's siege peacefully. |
D'Autres Images Ecrites
Nada Moghaizel Nasr
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1999
Second work by Nada Moghaizel Nasr on images written on childhood, mothers, people . . in Lebanon. |
Damour, Man Anti
Farid Gharib, Michel Gharib
Novel
World book publishing 1978
Damour until January 19th, 1976: date of the massacre perpetrated by Palestinians against the Lebanese civilians. |
Da’iman Coca-Cola
Alexandra Chreiteh
Novel
Arab Scientific Publ. 2009
This story of 3 very different young women, Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine, attending a Beirut university, explores a specific Lebanese milieu and demonstrates how confused one may become because of naming, desire, identity, and branding issues. |
De Beyrouth à Jenine : Quatorze Soldats Israeliens racontent
Ilana Hammerman Irit Gal, translated by Catherine Neuvéglise
Memoirs and Testimonies
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. |
De Gaulle et le Liban, Vers l'Orient compliqué (1929-1931)
Alexandre Najjar
History Analysis
Editions Geuthner-Paris 2002
The relations between Lebanon and General DeGaulle who resided in Lebanon for two years and played a determininf role in its Independence. |
De Ma Fenêtre Sans Maison
Nadia Tueni Laurent Abad (Photographs)
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 1996
poems and landscape photographs about a 'crazy land' Lebanon. |
De Niro's Game
Rawi Hage
Novel
Old Street 2006
A novel on life and death in times of war relating the story of two childhood best friends caught in Lebanon's civil war, and on the philosophy of suicide. |
De Niro’s Game
Rawi Hage
Novel
Éditions Denoël 2008
A novel on life and death in times of war relating the story of two childhood best friends caught in Lebanon's civil war, and on the philosophy of suicide. |
De Rhapsode au Zajal
Hoda Adib
Poetry
L'Harmattan, Collection Poètes des Cinq Continents 1998
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. |
De Saint-Pétersbourg à Aïn el-Mreissé
Irene Lehr
Memoirs and Testimonies
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. |
Dear Mr Kawabata [Azizi al-Sayyid Kawabata - Cher Monsieur Kawabata]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
english ed. translated by Paul Starkey, Quartet Books; french ed. translated by Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, Actes Sud coll. Sindbad; arabic ed. Mokhtarat; 1999, 1998, 1995, 2001
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. |
Death in Beirut
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Novel
Lynne Rienner Publ. Inc 1984
In the years following the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, Tamina leaves her poor Shi‘a village despite her family’s and community’s resistance, and goes to university in Beirut, where she works, studies, and learns about the dangers of anarchy and revolution, and comes in contact with the poorest Lebanese and with Palestinian refugees… just a few years before the civil war. |
Den of Lions : Memoirs of Seven Years
Terry Anderson
Memoirs and Testimonies
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. |
Dent d'Amour
Therese Aouad Basbous
Novel
L'Harmattan 1999
Pursuing what slips away from the touch of the words that are so dampened and dissolved in the life of 'others'. |
Derrière les Visages
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Castor poche); (9 stories from "Les corps et le temps" published in 1978 by Ed. Flammarion + unpublished story); 1984
Nine short stories, most of them located in Egypt and in Lebanon, aiming to tell about the human heart that knows no boundaries and no frontiers. |
Des Femmes, des Hommes et la Guerre: Fiction et Réalite au Proche-Orient
Evelyne Accad
Memory, Identity, Society
Cote-Femmes 1993
In this work, she uses the recent feminist interpretations of violence, aggression, war, and oppression. |
Des jours en trop [Ayyam Za'idat]
Hassan Daoud
Novel
french ed. translated by Edwige Lambert, Actes-Sud/Sindbad; arabic ed. Dar al Jadeed, 2 editions; 1998, 1990, 2000
A man dying, scared of death listens to his son telling him how easy it is, as if he were not afraid of his own death. |
Des Mots et des Hommes
Therese Aouad Basbous
Novel
L'Harmattan 2000
Reconstitution with words of an almost vanished past, of a moving experience that took place. |
Des Mots Sur le Seuil
Claire Gebeyli
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 2000
The magic created by words evoking reality. |
Dictionnaire de la littérature libanaise d'expression française
Ramy Zein
On Literature
L'Harmattan 1998
This dictionary includes 134 articles dedicated to the authors, a themes' inventory, a chronological classification of the writers, a selective classification of the author into literary genres (tale, short story, novel, autobiography, poetry, theatre), an index of over 600 titles, and a selective bibliography. |
Dilemmas of democracy and political parties in sectarian societies : the case of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon
Nazih Richani
Memory, Identity, Society
St. Martin's, (1st Edition) 1998
'How a party is constructed in a multi-ethnic society, how social composition influences the decisions made as well as the dynamics of a party, and what affects a party's development . . . through an in-depth study of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), one of Lebanon's most important political parties ' |
Dirasat fi naqd al-shi‘r (A Study in Poetry Critique)
Elias Khoury
On Literature
Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-Arabiyya 1979
This book represents an attempt at reading modern Arab poetry through three poems by three poets: Siyab’s “Unshoodat al-matar”; Adonis’ “Mufrad bi-seeghat al-jam‘ ”; and Darwish’s “Serhan yashrab al-qahwa fee al-cafeteria”. |
Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years
Houchang Chehabi
History Analysis
I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2003
A study of the centuries-long contact between Iran and Lebanon on the religious, political, and cultural levels. |
Diwan Chahrour el-Wadi. Le Zajal, ou la Poésie Populaire
Joseph D. Raidy
On Literature
Joseph D. Raidy 2001
Book on the Lebanese popular poetry, the 'zajal', that also reflects the events taking place in Lebanon. |
Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre
Eyad, Elias Houssami, Khoury (Editors)
On Art / On Literature
Pluto Press 2012
A collection of essays including academic discussions, personal narratives, and specially commissioned portraits of contemporary Arab theatre artists, by writers and artists from Lebanon, among other Arab countries, tracing the history of contemporary Arab theatre and its relationship to social change. |
Dreams Of Water
Nada Awar Jarrar
Novel
HarperCollins Publ. 2007
Only when a young man disappears does his worried family understand the deep bond of love that ties their family together. |
Drogues de Paix, Drogues de Guerre
Antoine Boustany
Memory, Identity, Society
Hachette-Pluriel 1997
The part drugs play in civilizations, religions, terrorism, and combats. |
Du Privé au Public : Espaces et Valeurs du Politique au Proche-Orient
Seteney Shami,Marianne Petit,Fatiha Dazi-Heni,Chawqi Douaihy,Joelle Deluz-La Bruyere et Zineb Guerroudj-Benzerfa,Jean-Claude David,May Davie,Françoise de Bel Air,Brigitte Curmi,Ahmad Beydoun,Nabil Beyhum
Architecture and Urban Studies
Cahiers du CERMOC, No 8 1994
Analysis of the loose line separating the private and public life in Middle-Eastern societies where practices, authorities and values shape coexistence on both individual and collective levels. |
Dunia ahbabtuha
Wadad Makdisi Cortas
Memoirs and Testimonies
Al-Mu’assasa al-Ahliyya
Wadad Makdisi Cortas describes her experience of the events in the Middle East in the 20th century, including the French mandate, and her dedication towards an Arab identity based on religious tolerance and towards the education of women, until the “Palestine question,” Western interference, sectarian and religious division and civil war contributed to ruining her hopes and her country. |
Dunya
Alawiyya Sobh
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2006
In this novel, the author shows how the civil war separated many, but also cancelled the distances between the different classes, through a story depicting human desires, fears, and lust. |
Durooz Belghrad (The Druze of Belgrade)
Rabee Jaber
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2010
This novel tells the story of the Druze fighters forced to leave after the 1860 civil war in Mount Lebanon and go to the fortress of Belgrade, and who took along with them a Chrisitian man in exchange for the freedom of a fellow fighter. |
D’autres vies
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Verticales 2012
This novel shows the impact of war and violence on those who live them, and on the meaning of life itself, especially for women. |
