Maria Aparecida
Yasmina Traboulsi
Novel
Mercure de France 2002
A liveky image of Bahia that can be mistaken for an image of Beirut, with its dust, misery and opulence through 14 short stories depicting the strength and incredible mystery of absence. |
Marie-Luce Bruyère, ou la vie d'un étudiant en France
Georges Saad
Novel
Atelier de création libertaire 2002
The life of a Lebanese student in Paris, and his love story with Marie. |
Mariée à Paris… Répudiée à Beyrouth
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
L'Harmattan 2009
After living in France where she enjoyed the rights of a French wife and mother, the hero of this novel goes back to her native country, Lebanon, where she falls under the “law” of the patriarchal and machist society in her muslim community. |
Maronites in History
Matti Moosa, Syracuse
History Analysis
University Press 1986
This first monograph written in English on the Maroniteis is a historical study of the Maronites, an Eastern church of Syrian origin which has been in communion with Rome since the twelfth century. |
MARYAM AL-HAKAYA
Alawiyya Al-Solh
Novel
Dar Al-Adab 2002
Different stories told to Maryam by members of a Shi’ite community that had to leave South-Lebanon to come and work in Beirut; highlighting aspects of their life which others outside the community would consider as shameful and unthinkable considering the oriental standards, beliefs and taboos, but that are current in this community. |
Maryam al-hakaya
Alawiyya Sobh
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2002
Maryam’s, Ibtissam’s, and Yasmine’s friend disappeared after she had written down all the stories they told her so she could write a novel, and Maryam decides to take over, telling the stories of unfortunate women, of broken destinies, of Ibtissam who wishes to marry Karim even though he is Christian… and of her own wish to flee her disrupted country Lebanon. |
Maryam ou le passé décomposé
Alawiyya Sobh
Novel
Gallimard 2007
Maryam’s, Ibtissam’s, and Yasmine’s friend disappeared after she had written down all the stories they told her so she could write a novel, and Maryam decides to take over, telling the stories of unfortunate women, of broken destinies, of Ibtissam who wishes to marry Karim even though he is Christian… and of her own wish to flee her disrupted country Lebanon. |
Master of the Eclipse, The Stories
Etel Adnan
Tales
Interlink Books 2009
Tales of love, loss, exile and other quotidian matters, of filmmakers, poets, professors, prostitutes, from 1930s Beirut through early 1960s San Francisco to the first Gulf war, illustrating the relations between innocence and power, love and sorrow, visible and invisible realities. |
Matar huzayran
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 2006
In 1957, after a shoot-out, a village in North Lebanon is divided in two, yet the closely intertwined lives of its inhabitants can’t be easily divided as neighbours become enemies and husbands and wives must choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. |
Même les Tueurs Ont Une Mère
Patrick Meney
Memoirs and Testimonies
La Table Ronde 1986
An interview with Marwan, a 26 years' old killer. The account of his passage from being a peaceful carefree adolescent to his becoming a militiaman whose only profession was death during 'the collective madness' of the Lebanese conflict. |
Mémoires d'Ailleurs
Edouard Azouri
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1999
A love story written by a psychiatrist. |
Mémorial du Liban (volume 3): Le Mandat Camille Chamoun 1952-1958
Joseph Chami
History Analysis
Ed. Joseph Chami 2006
The political, economic and social evolution under Camille Chamoun's presidency. |
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
Mahmoud Darwish
Memoirs and Testimonies
The University of California Press 1982
Account of the 1982 Israeli invasion. And of an agony in which time itself is the subject of meditation. |
Menus Détails
Rafif Fattouh translated by Naoum Abi-Rached; preface Salah Stetie
Novel
L'Harmattan (coll. Ecritures arabes) 2001
Short stories written at the beginning of the eighties, in war-torn Beirut, relating terribles events: a suicide, unexpected reunions, …all with the war background. |
Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth Century Beirut
Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Memory, Identity, Society
Universe Inc. 2000
"The relationship between migration and urbanization as it was manifested in Beirut's social transformation in the nineteenth century." |
Migrations et Changements Sociaux dans l'Orient Arabe
Andre Bourgey, Philippe Gorokhoff, Michel Nancy, Alain Roussillon, Elisabeth Longuenesse, Gilbert Beauge, Issal Saleh, Salim Nasr
Memory, Identity, Society
CERMOC 1985
Immigrant work-force: Exchange between populated areas that are poor and rich regions that do not have enough labour, between societies rich with knowledge and societies cut from their traditions. |
Mi’at wa-tamanun ghuruban
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2008
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. |
Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Ed.)
On Literature
Columbia Univ. Press 2004
A collection of works by 140 major Arab writers of fiction, reflecting the different aspects of modern life in the Arab world. |
Modern History of Lebanon
Kamal Salibi
History Analysis
Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. 1976
Short account of the evolution of modern Lebanon: 'the social and economic forces underlying the evolution of the confessional basis of modern Lebanon's policy.' |
Mon père m’attendait à Manille
Marie Moarbes
Memoirs and Testimonies
Ed. Robert Laffont 2001
The testimony of Marie Moarbes, a French-Lebanese 32 years' old single young woman who was kidnapped along with a group of tourists in Malaysia in 2000. Without water or food, or hygiene, but thanks to her knowledge in first-aid, as well as her tough character and her humour, she will learn a great lesson of courage -hers as well as her 75 years' old father's who went to Manilla to save her- that will give a new meaning to her life. |
Mondes, Miroirs, Magies
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Fiction Française) 1988
This book out of reality, memoirs and dreams aims to show the unity amongst men -death, tragedy and joy, laughter and tears- and that life always carries something that last and that is shared. |
Moukawimat [Resistant]
Souha Bechara and Gilles Paris arabic ed. translated by Antoine Abou Zeid
Memoirs and Testimonies
Saqi Books, 2000; french ed. J.-C. Lattès (Lattes), 2001 2000, 2001
The testimony of Souha Beshara who spent 10 years in the 'khiam' prison, telling about her personal convictions that helped her survive through torture and isolation. |
Mourir partir revenir. Le jeu des hirondelles
Zeina Abirached
Memoirs and Testimonies
Cambourakis 2007
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. |
Mouvements Communautaires et Espaces Urbains au Machreq
Waddah Charara, Bachchar Chbarou, Guy Leonard, Salim Nasr, Michel Seurat, Jean-Pierre Thieck, Mona Zakharia
Architecture and Urban Studies
CERMOC 1985
Urban crisis in the Arabic Levant marked with the conflict between religions and the multiple attempts to solve the problems related to the identities of the different groups. |
Murder, Mayhem, Pillage and Plunder : The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Mishaqa Wheeler translated by M. Thackston
History Analysis
State University of New York Pr., 1998
Detailed history of Lebanon in the 19th century: the ruling sheikhs, the religious divisions, as well as the various domestic and foreign players in the author’s personal opinion. |
Mûriers sauvages
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Gallimard 2007
This novel portrays the life of the silk-growing inhabitants of a Druze Lebanese village during a difficult economic period, through the story of young Sarah and the village’s women. |
Musk al-ghazal
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
Dar al-Adab 1988
The author relates the hard life of four women in an unnamed desert state. |
My American Bride: a Tale of Love and War
Elie A. Salem
Memoirs and Testimonies
Quartet Books 2008
The author tells about his American wife whom he met in the USA, and who came with him to Lebanon where she stood by his side throughout his successful career, until she died. |
My war diary : Lebanon June 5-July 1, 1982
Dov Irmiya
Memoirs and Testimonies
South End Press 1984
The author -a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces- tells about what he saw of he effects of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on the civilian population. |
Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman
Fay Afaf Kanafani
Memoirs and Testimonies
Sharpe, M.e., Inc., 1998
Fay Afaf Kanafani's autobiography as an Arab Muslim woman born in Beirut in 1918: experiences in Lebanon and Palestine from World War I to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. |
Nahiyyat al-Bara'a [The Side of Innocence]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Massa; english ed. translated by Paula Haydar, Interlink Pub Group; 1997, 2001
The conditions of ordinary simple people in post-civil war Lebanon, who remain at the mercy of forces other than those of the legitimate authority. |
Nation and Religion in the Middle East
Fred Halliday
Memory, Identity, Society
Saqi Books 2000
A collection of essays about religion, culture and politics in the Middle East through a general analysis of the region. |
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Michelle Hartman
On Literature
Syracuse Univ. Press 2014
In this analysis challenging the widespread idea than Lebanese women writers express a Francophile consciousness, the author shows how their language itself represents their society, disrupting the established class, religion, and gender order. |
Nawm al-ayyam
Alawiyya Sobh
Novel
Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-Arabiyya 1986
About the love of a woman who has known war and fear… |
Nihayat Al-Jidar Al-Tayyib: Sirat Al-Ihhtilal Al-Isra'ili Li Loubnan, 1976-2001
Mahmoud Haydar
History Analysis
Riad el-Rayyes 2001
The "frontier" the Israelis put between their land and the land of Lebanon in 1976 pretending they put it there for positive relations on all levels between both countries. And which Israel "admits" today, in 2001, didn't serve its -so-called- purpose. |
Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khazin Sheiks and the Maronite Church (1736-1840)
Richard Van Leeuwen
History Analysis
Brill Academic Publishers Inc. 1994
An analysis of the influence of external forces -European, Syrian and Ottoman, the Vatican-, and internal factors -the role of religious foundations, or waqfs- that can explain the remarkable political role of the Maronite Church in the history of Mount Lebanon in the 19th century, through socio-economic transformations. |
Nour et le Moineau
Jihad Darwiche illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L'Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1999
"... one day, other sparrows started approaching Nour... and ended up eating the bread crumbs out of his hand..." |
Nourrir les Dieux ou Mourir
François Harfouche
Novel
France Europe ed. 2003
A doctor comes across fascinating signals that he does not know whether to interpret if they are directly destined to him or if they are dictating to his patients, through him, their health bulletin. |
Nous reviendrons à Beyrouth
Elie-Pierre Sabbag
Novel
Arléa 1997
This novel tells the story of a Lebanese woman who spent her childhood in Beirut then went to live in Paric where she got married and had a daughter… until her life is disrupted. |
Nouvelles d'une guerre ancienne
Collectif
Novel
Ed. Tamyras 2005
A collection of twelve short stories, each telling in a different manner part of the larger picture of the war in Lebanon, written after March 14th 2005 and aiming at a better future. |
Nouvelles du Liban (Short Stories from Lebanon)
Collectif
Novel
Magellan & Cie 2007
A collection of short stories by authors representing Lebanese francophone literature. |
Oeuvres Complètes: Le Théâtre; La Poésie
Georges Schehadeh
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 1998
Children, mother land, the mother, the Christian symbols. |
Of cities and women (Letters to Fawwaz)
Etel Adnan
Memory, Identity, Society
The Post-Apollo Press 1993
"A book in lieu of an essay on feminism promised to Fawwaz Traboulsi for his magazine Zawaya... (letters) written against the background of war -the Gulf War, the Lebanese Civil War... a global sensitivity to the situations of women from country to country... and in their representations in art." |
Oh, Salaam!
Najwa Barakat
Novel
Interlink Books 2014
A portray of the return to life after the end of the civl war, describing its consequences as well as those of gender violence through the story of three friends, an explosives expert, a sniper, and a torturer, who must make a life for themselves in a war-free country. |
Open House
Nabil A. Saleh
Novel
Quartet Books, Incorporated 2001
Spy thriller set in 1940s Beirut, where everyone is a spy or the spouse of one, keeps or divulges information to serve a personal, national or international cause. |
Opening of South Lebanon, 1788-1840
William R. Polk
Memory, Identity, Society
Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1963
A study on the oral tradition among the Druze. The muqataajis: Junblat, Arslan, and a dozen others, observing "that the society of the area recognized three other basic splits: village, party, and religion." |
Orient-Occident, la fracture imaginaire
Georges Corm
Memory, Identity, Society
La Découverte & Syros, 2002
A large number of people consider that the events of September 11th 2001 confirm the supposed thousahd years' old hostility between East and West. In this book Georges Corm explains why this is in reality an "imaginary fracture" that hides the interests of highly secular powers. |
Origines
Amin Maalouf
Memoirs and Testimonies
Grasset 2004
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. |
Origins
Amin Maalouf
Memoirs and Testimonies
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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. |
Origins of the Lebanese National Idea
Carol Hakim
Memory, Identity, Society
Univ. of California Press 2013
A study of the origins of the Lebanese national idea, reconsidering conventional accounts. |
