180 sunsets
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Saqi 2010
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. |
38, rue Youssef Semaani
Zeina Abirached
Novel
Cambourakis 2006
The shape of this book allows multiple readings through the various possible ways to unfold a series of three times five strips, each dedicated to the occupant of a building, the building where the author spent her childhood, all together forming a community of neighbours, their daily life and light conflicts. |
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
Zeina Abirached
Memoirs and Testimonies
Graphic Universe 2012
Born in Lebanon in 1981, Zeina recounts her childhood memories of the civil war –started 6 years before she was born– portraying the strength of family and community. |
A Girl Made of Dust
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Novel
Fourth Estate 2008
During the 1980s, 10 year’ old Ruba living in her family home in a village outside Beirut watches the civil war tearing Lebanon apart. |
A Good Land
Nada Awar Jarrar
Novel
HarperCollins 2008
This novel shows how the Lebanese continue to love their country despite the violence and fear they experienced during the war. |
A History of Modern Lebanon
Fawwaz Traboulsi
History Analysis
Pluto Press 2007
The first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period, based on previously inaccessible archives, written by a leading Lebanese scholar. |
A House Not Her Own : stories from Beirut
Emily Nasrallah english ed. translated by Thuraya Khalil-Khouri
Novel
Charlottetown, P.E.I. Gynergy Books, 1992
Lebanon war stories carrying the cries of the destitute and oppressed. |
A House of Many Mansions. The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
Kamal Salibi
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993
The historical myths on which Lebanon's warring communities have based their conflicting visions of the Lebanese nation. |
A la Recherche d'une Modernité Arabe. L'Evolution des Arts Plastiques en Egypte, au Liban et en Irak
Silvia Naef
On Art
Slatkine 1996
Plastic art in the Arab World has been going through a great evolution since the 1930s. particularly in Egypt, Irak and in Lebanon. |
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
Leila Tarazi Fawaz
History Analysis
Harvard Univ. Press 2014
The people of modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, as well as those of Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt, after the Great War. |
A Livres Ouverts: Une Vie de Souvenirs
Phares Zoghbi
Memoirs and Testimonies
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. |
A Parish of Rich Women
James Buchan
Memoirs and Testimonies
Merle Collins, Marlowe & Company; 1998 (reprint ed.)
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". |
A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman
Wadad Makdisi Cortas
Memoirs and Testimonies
Nation Books 2009
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. |
Aan Amal La Shifa’ Minh
Fawwaz Traboulsi
Memory, Identity, Society
Mou'assassat al-Abhath al-Aarabiyyat, 1982
A collection of texts written in Between June and October 1982 while Beirut was besieged by the Israelis. |
Abkar. Poème Mythologique
Chafic Maluf
Poetry
Self-published, translated from arabic by Maurice Sacre 1973
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. |
Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon
Jamal Sleem Nuweihed
Tales
Interlink Pub Group (International Folk Tales Series), 2002
27 Arab traditional folk stories the author had recounted to the children of her family over the years. |
Abwab Al-Madinah [Gates of the City]
Elias Khoury
Novel
arabic ed. Dar el-Adab; english ed. Translated by Paula Haydar, Cloth; 1981, 1990, 1993
'The pains and ravages of civil war. A man wanders the labyrinths of Beirut out of the past and through the present into an uncertain future, following a trajectory much like that of the city itself. The problems of memory and forgetting, the linguistic and cultural struggles that have exploded the city for the past fifteen years.' |
Agatha de Beyrouth
Zeina / Jacques Abirached / Jouet
Novel
Cambourakis 2011
This book is born from a performance that took place in Beyrouth in April 2009. Jacques Jouet wrote and Zeina Abirache drew live with an audience, during 24 hours, 24 episodes of this story set in a war-torn city. |
Ahl al'Hawa [Les Illuminés]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
arabic ed. Dar An-Nahar; french ed. translated by François Zabbal, Actes Sud; 1999, 1993
The main character of this novel is crippled and tries to find the reasons for his handicap in the war. |
Ahl al-Thill
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Dar Moukhtarat 1982
Emigration of Lebanese families after the Israeli attack in 1982. |
Ain Wardé
Jabbour Doueihy
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2002
The author tells the story, beyond the ghost of the war, of the life of his characters; inhabitants of a village close to Beirut where Mar Nohra is known to be the saint who cures eye diseases. |
Aknus Al-Shams Aan Al-Sutuh [I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops]
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; english ed. translated by Catherine Cobham, Doubleday; 1994, 1998
Collection of short stories detailing the complexities of contemporary Arab life. Tenuously poised between the cultures of the East and the West. |
Al Iklaa Aaks al-Zaman [Flight Against Time]
Emily Nasrallah
Novel
arabic ed. Naufal Group; english ed. translated by Issa Boullata, University of Texas Press; 1981, 1987
The anguish of parents whose children are touched by the 'contagion of emigration', before and because of the Civil Lebanese war. |
AL KATIBAT
Therese-Aouad Basbous
Novel
1993
A novel set against war-torn Beirut. |
AL MAR'A WAL MASRAHIYA FI LOUBNAN [The woman and Theater in Lebanon]
Watfa Hamade Hachem
On Art
Dar el-Mada 2003
The itinerary of Lebanese actresses since the second half of the 19th century. |
Al Thill wal'Sada
Youssef Habchi Al-Achkar
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1989
An account of the Lebanese war and its analysis through worried and upset characters. |
Al- I‘tirafat (Confessions)
Rabee Jaber
Memoirs and Testimonies
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2008
Childhood memories of the civil war in Lebanon illustrating the impact of its brutality on every Lebanese. |
Al-a‘mal al-shi‘riyya (Poems)
Rashid al-Daif
Poetry
Riad al-Rayyes Books 2007
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. |
Al-dhakira al-mafqooda (the Lost Memory)
Elias Khoury
On Literature
Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-Arabiyya 1982
A collection of critique articles written from 1972 to 1981 including a variety of interests, and representing a testimony to the transitional literary period from the 1950s to another phase full of questionings an possibilities. |
Al-Imam al-mughayyab Musa al-Sadr wa-shiat Lubnan
Fouad Ajami
History Analysis
Dar al-Andalus publ 1987
The story of Musa al-Sadr, the spiritual leader of Lebanon’s Shi’a community, who disappeared mysteriously in the summer of 1978, and the analysis of his past, who he was, his personal Shi’a doctrine, his role within Lebanon’s warring factions, and the reason behind his disappearance. |
Al-Imar Wal-Maslahat Al-Aammat, Fil-Ijtimaa Wal-Thakafat: Maana Al-Madinat Soukkanuha
Nabil Beyhum
Architecture and Urban Studies
Dar Al-Jadid 1995
A collection of articles showing the effect of the reconstruction of Beirut on its people. |
Al-Imar Wal-Maslahat Al-Aammat. Fil Tourath Wal-Hadathat: Madinat Al-Harb Wa Zakirat Al-Moustakbal
Jad Tabet
Architecture and Urban Studies
Dar Al-Jadid 1996
A collection of articles: Memories related to Beirut's Urban heritage and a continual discovery of the city of Beirut through its changes (summer 1983-spring 1995). |
Al-Jabal al-Saghir [The Little Mountain - La Petite Montagne]
Elias Khoury
Novel
arabic ed. Mouassassat al-Abhath al-Aarabiyat; french ed. Arléa; 1977, 1987
a series of short 'portraits' of the civil war, based, in part, on Khoury's own experiences. |
Al-Khataya ash-sha'i'a (Common Sins)
Fatin al-Murr
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1999
A story of love and resistance between South Lebanon, Beirut and London told from the perspective of a female narrator. |
Al-khulwa al-malakiyya (Royal Solitude)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 2001
A dead man who does not look like a combattant, but like a musician…. |
AL-MASHHAD Al-AKHEER
May Menassa
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
Five Stories, each one about a theater actor… |
Al-mubtada’ w-al-khabar: Short Stories (Subject and Predicate)
Elias Khoury
Novel
Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-Arabiyya 1984
This collection relates events linked to the civil war in Lebanon through short stories born from a combination of truth and fiction. |
Al-sirsar
Rawi Hage
Novel
Sharikat al-Matbu‘at publ. 2010
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. |
Al-Sourrou al-mouazza’ lil anisa May
Farouk Saad
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 2003
The author tells about the writer and poetess May Ziade, using the title of one of her short stories for his book. He analyses her writings highlighting how much they show the mystery of her life. |
Al-usboo‘ al-akheer (The Last Week)
Hala Kawtharani
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2006
The events of the last week spent by a young Lebanese woman in Lebanon before fleeing to Dubai. |
Al-Wujuh al-Bayda' [Un Parfum de Paradis]
Elias Khoury
Novel
arabic ed. Dar Ibn-Rushd; french ed. Arlea, Seuil; 1992, 1981
An emotional story of war and violence in Lebanon. |
Ali and His Russian Mother
Alexandra Chreiteh
Novel
Interlink Books 2015
This story of two young people, a boy and a girl, with Russian mothers, at the outbreak of Lebanon’ July 2006 war, who flee to Moscow and bond on their way there, portrays Lebanon’s taboos surrounding gender, sexual, religious, and national identities. |
All Honourable Men: the Social Origins of War in Lebanon
Michael Johnson
History Analysis
The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002
The author explains the Lebanese civil war through "ethnic conflict": by examining "the history of confessional or ethnic identity in Lebanon and the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s". |
Always Coca-Cola
Alexandra Chreiteh
Novel
Interlink Books 2012
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. |
Amal and the Shi'a : Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon
Augustus Richard Norton
Memory, Identity, Society
Latest ed. Al-Saqi; First ed. University of Texas Press, Modern Middle East Series, No. 13, 2002, 1987
The author describes the annual two day Shi'ite ritual of 'Ashura -the major commemoration of the suffering and martyrdom of Imam Husain- in Lebanon and also Iran, India, and Trinidad "along with comparative perspectives on Christian passion plays". |
America (America)
Rabee Jaber
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2009
In a novel combining fiction and the history of Arab migrations to the Americas, the author tells the story a group of Syrian-Lebanese who emigrated to the United States on the eve of WW1. |
Amerika
Rabee Jaber
Novel
Gallimard 2013
In a novel combining fiction and the history of Arab migrations to the Americas, the author tells the story a group of Syrian-Lebanese who emigrated to the United States on the eve of WW1. |
Amers
Yasmina Traboulsi
Novel
Mercure de France 2007
A story illustrating Beirut's fractioned society and identities. |
Amtar Kadima
Fouad Rafka
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 2003
An essay on literature as well as on political transparency and poetry. Fouad Rafka tells about art, about the problems relative to the Arabic society and the world of poetry. |
An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers from 2 Coasts
Edited by Scott C. Davis
On Literature
Cune 1997
An anthology of Arab-American writers such as Jocelyne M. Ajami, Sara Nadia Rashad, Lisa Suheir Majaj, Hanna Eady, Natalie Handal, Nimri Aziz, not classifying the writers," supporting stereotypes about each of the ethnic identities that are supposed to exist in America. But including "a variety of voices, providing the reader with glimpses of what it is like to be an American from any of the many, varied, multifaceted backgrounds that everyone comes from." |
