Les Larmes de la Colère
Alain Ménargues
Memoirs and Testimonies
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. |
Les Libanais en Côte d'Ivoire d'Hier à Aujourd'hui
Dunia Fayad Taan
Memory, Identity, Society
Librairie de l'Ecole, Dar Al-Kitab Allubnani 1988
A study on the human, political and economic Lebanese presence in Ivory Coast; immigrants that were welcome in this country during the Lebanese conflicts. |
Les Lieux de l'Intersubjectivité: Hommage à Sélim Abou
Jad Hatem
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan 1998
Study of Selim Abou's work in linguistic, anthropology and philosophy. |
Les Lieux Visiteurs
Nohad Salameh
Poetry
L'Harmattan 1997
The geography of exile: places that are at the same time real and unreal: orient landscapes in Venice and masks showing pain and love. |
Les Livres d'Anne
Laurice Schehadeh
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1999
Childhood, time flying away, and love. |
Les Moi Volatils des Guerres Perdues
Ghassan Fawaz
Novel
Seuil 1996
Reality and imagination, History and fiction. |
Les moulins de Beyrouth
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Novel
Actes-Sud 2012
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. |
Les mystérieux druzes du mont Liban
Paul-Jacques Callebaut
Memory, Identity, Society
Renaissance du Livre 2000
One of the rare books about the Druzes, a minority within the muslim World, living in Mount-Lebanon: their traditions and way of life, in the heart of beautiful nature between Israël, Lebanon and Syria. |
Les paramètres d'Hérodote ou Les identités cuturelles collectives
Bahjat Rizk
Memory, Identity, Society
Ed. de L'Orient Le jour 2009
Identity as the essential basis of national identification. |
Les Phéniciens
Gerhard Herm
History Analysis
Fayard 1996
The Phoenicians, their civilization, commerce and adventures through the seas. |
Les Phéniciens : Aux origines du Liban
Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Eric Gubel
History Analysis
Decouvertes Gallimard 1998
A small work on this ancient civilization with many illustrations showing archeological and antiques. |
Les Phéniciens : l'expansion phénicienne, Carthage
Andre Parrot, Maurice H Chéhab, Sabatino Moscati
History Analysis
Gallimard, (L'Univers des formes) 1975
This book is constituted by three parts: "The Phoenician Ambivalence" by André Parrot; "The Phoenicians in the Near-East" by Maurice M. Chéhab; "The Phoenicians in the West" by Sabatino Moscati; plus general documentation |
Les portes de la nuit
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
Editions des écrivains 1999
Myriam, a very intuitive young woman who also has premonitory dreams, meets, in real life, with the man she had been dreaming about repetitively. |
Les Récits Bleus
Ezza Malak
Memory, Identity, Society
Al Moutanabbi 1999
The tough times and social repression that have taken place in Lebanon today, which remind us of events that took place in Lebanon, long ago. |
Les Rumeurs dans la Guerre du Liban, Les Mots de la Violence
Fadia Nassif Tar Kovacs
Memory, Identity, Society
CNRS Editions 1998
Rumors during the Lebanese war that only appear to have increased dread. |
Les Saisons de passage
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Documents) 1996
In 80 short texts, the author describes her mother throughout various places and times. Memories combining reality and fiction. |
Les Secrets de la Guerre du Liban
Alain Menargues
History Analysis
Albin Michel 2001
The account (with unpublished archives) of two crucial years - 1980 / 1982 - during the Lebanese war, when the Israelis, with the United States blessing, allowed Béchir Gemayel's 'Lebanese Forces' to rule Beirut. |
Les Secrets de la Guerre du Liban : du coup d’Etat de Béchir Gemayel aux massacres des camps Palestiniens
Alain Menargues
History Analysis
Albin Michel 2004
The author tells about two crucial years (1980-1982) when the Israelis, with the help of the United States, allowed Béchir Gemayel’s Christian Lebanese Forces to have power over Beirut. He presents the Coup d’Etat’s secret negotiations with Israel. With the assassination of Béchir Gemayel end the invasion of the Israeli troops inside Lebanon, the political-military scheme collapsed… |
Les Souliers Rouges
Jihad Darwiche black & white illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L’Harmattan (Contes du roseau) 1988
An original story on war and love; A father's search for his son who has disappeared after their house was shelled. |
Les superstitions au Liban: Aspects psycho-sociologiques
Mounir Chamoun
Memory, Identity, Society
Dar el-Machreq & Publications du Centre Universitaire (Coll. Hommes et Sociétés du Proche-Orient), 1973
Individual as well as collective studies relative to superstitions in Lebanon, their importance in daily life, explaining what superstitions really are: the language of repressed guilt feelings. |
Lessons of Lebanon : The Economics of War and Development
Samir Makdisi
History Analysis
IBTauris 2004
“The text offers an in-depth analysis of Lebanese economic development during the second half of the 20th century, with special emphasis on the civil war and its aftermath. Makdissi offers a definitive assessment of the principal phases of national development since Lebanese independence in the 1940s, and a study of those conditions requisite for sustainable development for Lebanon, as for many other developing countries.” |
Lest We Forget: Lebanon 1975-1990
Mishka Moujabber Mourani
Poetry
Self-published, limited edition of 1000, 1991
A collection of about 40 mostly brief poems that reflect personal reactions to, and musings about, the events of the Lebanese war. |
Lettre Posthume
Dominique Edde
Novel
Gallimard 1989
The story takes place a short while before the fightings between Christians which destroyed, beginning 1989 and in a short period of time, the East part of Beirut. |
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Philip Mansel
History Analysis
Yale Univ. Press 2011
A colourful description of three former hubs of wealth, pleasure, and freedom: Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut. |
Lezardes
Houda Karim
Memoirs and Testimonies
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'. |
Liban
Charles Saint-Prot
History Analysis
IDLivre 2004
The author analyzes all the historical, political, socio-cultural and economical aspects of Lebanon which plays an important role in the geopolitics of a region that is one of the “hot points” of the planet. |
Liban - Deux Peuples ne font pas une Nation
Richard Haddad
History Analysis
ed. Godefroy de bouillon 1997
The pact of 1943 that stated that Lebanon would be independent of any Western or Arab influence was never respected. Which marked the beginning of a cold war between Muslims and Christians, aggravated by the creation of the state of Israel. |
Liban - Le regard des peintres: 200 ans de peintures libanaises
Institut du Monde Arabe
On Art
IMA 1989
Lebanese painting, starting the end of the 18th century until 1989, through the works of seventy artists. |
Liban Déraciné, Immigrés dans l'Autre Amérique
Selim Abou
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan (Connaissance des Hommes) 1998
An analysis of the problems of integration of all immigrant communities, thus their political and cultural fate; through the true story of four Argentinean persons from Lebanese descent, telling about the conflict between cultures. |
Liban Pluriel, Essai sur une Culture Conviviale
Salah Stetie
Memory, Identity, Society
Naufal 1994
Lebanon, - internationally - a meeting place of east and west, and within its own people - nationally -, the meeting place of different religions. |
Liban, écrits nomades - Volume 1
Yves Laplace, Robert Marinier, Jean-Yves Picq, Koffi Kwahulé
Novel
Carnières 2001
Plays and stories, related directly and indirectly to Beirut, by nine authors and a photographer from 3 continents inspired by their one month stay in the city of Byblos in Lebanon. |
Liban, écrits nomades - Volume 2
Joseph Kodeih, Mohamed Kacimi, Florent Couao-Zotti
Novel
Carnières 2001
Plays and stories, related directly and indirectly to Beirut, by nine authors and a photographer from 3 continents inspired by their one month stay in the city of Byblos in Lebanon. |
Liban, Figures Contemporaines
Mardam-Bey Farouk
On Literature
Circé 1999
From the 19th century until 1999, a study on the important contribution of Lebanon to the cultural Arab Modernity through the portraits of 16 great Lebanese writers such as Ahmad Faris Al-Chidiac, Gibran, Elias Abou Chabaka, and artists such as the painter Omar Ounsi and the musician Asi Al-Rahbani. |
Liban, Figures Contemporaines
Mardam-Bey Farouk
On Art
Circé 1999
From the 19th century until 1999, a study on the important contribution of Lebanon to the cultural Arab Modernity through the portraits of 16 great Lebanese writers such as Ahmad Faris Al-Chidiac, Gibran, Elias Abou Chabaka, and artists such as the painter Omar Ounsi and the musician Asi Al-Rahbani. |
Liban, Mémoires du Temps
Charles-Herve Faucon
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar An-Nahar 1998
Sincere account and well documented analysis on Lebanon. |
Liban: Le salut par la Culture
Phares Zoghbi
Memory, Identity, Society
Librairie Antoine & Dar An-Nahar, 1989
A collection of articles written in "L'Orient-Le Jour" from 1982 to 1987 implicating Lebanon directly, relative to "the possibility of recreating society as well as politics in a country through the search for a culture that would give a meaning to our existence." |
Liban: Les Guerres de l'Europe et de l'Orient 1840-1992
Georges Corm
History Analysis
Folio (coll. Actuel) 1992
Complete information on the -local, regional and international- historical and sociological data on the Lebanese issue over more than one century; explaining today's Lebanon's situation. |
Londres, Mon Amour
Hanan el-Sheikh translated by Rania Samara
Novel
Actes Sud 2002
Lamis -a young and beautiful Iraki woman who's just divorced-, Amira -a moroccan prostitute pretending she's a princess from the Gulf-, Samir -a Lebanese transvestite-, and Nicholas -an oriental antiques expert who works for Sotheby's-; all four arrive to London at the same time.
This novel is about their lives in cosmopolitan London where so many different people are. |
Lords of the Lebanese Marches : Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society
Michael Gilsenan
Memory, Identity, Society
University of California Press 1996
The relations between different forms of power, violence, and hierarchy in Akkar, the northern province of Lebanon, during the 1970s.; social honor, idealized masculinity, collective biography, and shared memory/forgetting. |
Loubnan: Ishroun Kassida min Ajl al'Hob
Nadia Tueni
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 1987
Cities and villages, men and women, messages, memories, tragedies and hope of Lebanon. |
Love and Sexuality in Modern Arab Literature
Edited by Roger Allen, Hilary Kilpatrick
On Literature
Ed de Moor; Saqi Books 1995
Treatment of writings (late 19th century-late 1980s) by modern Arab poets and novelists (Tawfiq al-Hakm, Jabra Ibrahm Jabra, Aduns, Layla Ba'albakki, Najb Mahfuz, Edwar al-Kharrat, Layla al-'Uthman and Nizar Qabban) on the theme of love and sexuality in segregated, conservative societies with a repressive attitude towards women. |
Lubnaniyoun fi al-Mansa
Adel Sawma
Novel
Dar Al-Farabi 1997
This book -that seems to insist on not forgetting- is a collection of stories about characters in Lebanon during the civil war period, 1975-1990, the 'forgotten' who lived the war and paid the price with their lives, time and dreams. |
Lu‘bat de Niro
Rawi Hage
Novel
Sharikat al-Matbu‘at publ. 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. |
L’armorial de la francophonie
Maurice Saliba
Memory, Identity, Society
Geuthner 2002
This book, destined to the Francophonie summit in Beirut, gathers more than 16,000 bibliographical notes relative to lebanon: French publications by Lebanese authors as well as writings in French on the subject of Lebanon, from 1515 to 2001 included. |
L’Identité Culturelle
Selim Abou
Memory, Identity, Society
USJ 2003
Two essays on the diversity of cultures from the viewpoint of social and cultural anthropology and that of philosophical anthropology. |
Mahjar
Roberto Khatlab
Memory, Identity, Society
Mokhtarat 2003
The author, a Brazilian historian of Lebanese descent, whose studies concern particularly the Lebanese immigration in Brazil, proposes an answer to the question "what are the possible affinities between a Portuguese colony in letin America and an Arab nation dominated, at the time, by the ottomans?" as well as to other questions relative to the subject. |
Majma‘ al-asrar
Elias Khoury
Novel
Dar al-Adab 1994
The narrator tells the stories of two men and one woman, their crossing destinies, in Lebanon and in Columbia, in between the 1860 civil war and the 1975 civil war. |
MAKIAJ KHAFEEF LI HATHIHI AL-LAYLA
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes Books 2003
"The make-up I put that evening, I needed it to be thick to cover the marks that did not disappear from my cheeks or from around my eyes, and very colorful, because I had lost my original color. The lady employees of the company had started encouraging me to use make-up, telling me that make-up suits no one as much as it suits me. Because my skin is pale, as they said, and my eyelashes need kohl to enlighten my eyes.
In his house, walking through his belongings that are not where they should be, I realized how tidy and bright I was. I walked ahead of him, but, while he was walking behind me, I was as if moving following my instinct to where he was going." |
Makinat al-Khiyata (The Sewing Machine)
May Menassa
Memoirs and Testimonies
Riad el-Rayyes Books 2011
This autobiographical novel relates the author’s memories of her family interwoven with flashbacks of the Lebanese civil war. |
Mamlakat al Gouraba [The Kingdom of Strangers]
Elias Khoury
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; english ed. Univ. of Arkansas Press; 1993, 1996
A novel about Lebanon besieged by civil war; a mosaic portrayal showing the chaos and despair suffered by its people. |
