Other Lives
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Interlink Books 2014
This novel shows the impact of war and violence on those who live them, and on the meaning of life itself, especially for women. |
Out of Place: A Memoir
Edward Said
Memoirs and Testimonies
Vintage Books 1999
Said's memoirs are powerfully informed by his sense of 'always being out of place' personally, geographically, and linguistically. |
Outremer
Nabil Saleh
Novel
Interlinks Publ. 1999
This novel is set in the 13th century Levant. It is about "Oriental and Western Christians, Mamelukes and other Muslims, Jews and Druzes [who] spend their lives in war and peace, compromise and confrontation, as their heirs do today as if nothing has changed and no lessons learned." |
Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient: l'Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours
Henry Laurens
History Analysis
Armand Colin 1999
The contemporary History of the Middle-East: political, economic, social and cultural events; In order to understand wars, conflicts, terrorism and the peace process in this region for half a century. |
Panorama de la poésie libanaise d'expression française
Najwa Aoun Anhoury
On Literature
Ed. Librairie Orientale 1996
A study of Francophone Lebanese poetry throughout one century (1890-1995) depicting the social-cultural circumstances and portraying its multiple aspects. |
Parcours en francophonie(s)
Zahida Darwiche Jabbour
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 2003
A study and an analysis on the concept and realities of francophonie and francophone literature, in particular in the Near-East, in the Maghreb and in Africa. |
Partition Libre Pour Isabelle
Yasmine Khlat
Novel
Seuil 2004
After a long stay in the African continent, Jean comes back to Lebanon, sick, to live by his sister Isabelle. She looks after him while evoking memories of a wild childhood and building an impossible future. |
Partition libre pour Isabelle
Yasmine Khlat
Novel
Seuil 2004
Through the story of Jean, very ill, who after a long stay in Africa, goes back to his native village accompanied by his sister Maïssa. the author portrays love between a brother and his sister. |
Passage to Dusk [Fushat Mustahdafa bayn al-Na'as wal-Nawm - Passage au Crépuscule]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
english ed. University of Texas Press, 2001; arabic ed. Dar Mokhtarat 1986; french ed. Actes Sud, 1992; 2001, 1986, 1992
This novel deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s. and focuses on the state of mind created living on the scene through a lengthy war. |
Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon
Rola el-Husseini
History Analysis
Syracuse Univ. Press 2012
This book portrays postwar Lebanon and its political scene: the author analyses the Syrian influence, describes the political history of Lebanon… defined by the legacy of war, and the Lebanese… marked by the scars of the civil war. |
Pérennité de la littérature libanaise d'expression française
Alexandre Najjar
On Literature
Anthologie 1993
Francophone Lebanese Literature from the period of pioneers to the period of combattants with an iconographic section and a bibliography listing amongst others: Amin Maalouf, Andrée Chedid, Salah Stétié, Georges Schéhadé, Nadia Tuéni, Vénus Khoury-Ghata. |
Pérennité de la littérature libanaise d'expression française (Anthologie)
Alexandre Najjar
On Literature
Anthologie 1993
A passionate plea for francophone Lebanese literature including: a synopsis of francophone Lebanese literature from the pioneers' period to the fighters' days; an iconographic section; and a bibliography listing 150 poets, novelists, philosophers..etc. |
Petite Terre, Vaste Rêve
Andree Chedid
Novel
Fayard/Pauvert 2002
18 short stories reflecting Man "when he procreates in denial, invents himself in creation, thus multiplying the reach of his destiny".
"The author captures bits of a world that, far from noise and worries, would be a place of balance and serene and optimistic reflection". |
Pierre el-Khoury: Architecture 1959-1999
Pierre El-Khoury introduction by George Arbid
Architecture and Urban Studies
Dar An-Nahar 2000
The designs of Pierre El Khoury, one of Lebanon's leading architects who has a long history of architectural practice, both for public and private organizations anf whose company 'Pierre el-Khoury and Partners' developed into a distinguished architectural firm conducting major projects in many countries throughout the world, during the past three decades. |
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
Robert Fisk
History Analysis
Oxford Paperbacks 2001 (latest edition)
Journalist Fisk tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of a Western blindness and arrogance that has led, inevitably, to political and military catastrophy in Lebanon. |
Pluie de Juin
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Actes-Sud 2010
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. |
Pluralisme, Modernité et Monde Arabe
Soheil Kash and Marie-Helene Parizeau
Memory, Identity, Society
Delta-Bruylant, Presses Universitaires de Laval 2001
Politics, human rights and bioethics. |
Poèmes pour une Histoire
Nadia Tueni
Poetry
Seghers (coll. Poésie 72 Seghers) 1972
Nadia Tueni's poetry on love, Lebanon, nature, death ... |
Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861
Ceasar E. Farah
History Analysis
The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
A study of the civil conflict in Lebanon analyzing thirty critical and determinant years in the shaping of the modern politics and patterns of foreign intervention in Lebanon. |
Politics, Culture and the Lebanese Diaspora
Nathalie Nahas & Paul Tabar (Editors)
Memory, Identity, Society
Cambridge Scholars Publ. 2010
A collection of essays portraying various facets of the Lebanese Diaspora in different parts of the world, notably their politics and culture. |
Politiques Urbaines dans la Banlieue-Sud de Beyrouth
Mona Harb El-Kak
Architecture and Urban Studies
Cahiers du CERMOC, No 14 1996
South Beyrouth: a region of Lebanon that constitues a political and urban stake. Divided between different political parties, and multiple property developers and speculators. |
Population Déplacée par la Guerre au Liban
Robert Kasparian, Andre Beaudoin, Selim Abou
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan, Coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient 2000
Investigation that took place in 1988, on the people that were displaced because of the Lebanese war (one fifth of the total population) and that are still, until today (2000), refugees in their own country. |
Portrait de ville: Beyrouth
Jad Tabet
Architecture and Urban Studies
Institut Francais d'Architecture (IFA) 2001
The architect Jad Tabet guides amateurs with intelligence and emotion through Beirut -a city between sea and mountain, in between war and peace- in this annual supplement of Archiscopie journal, published monthly by the French Institute of Architecture (IFA -Institut français d'architecture) . A guide showing 167 modern reference buildings as well as 7 important points of reference that are no longer existing is added to this supplement. |
Portrait Lil-Nisyan
Renee el-Hayeck
Novel
Al-Markaz Al-Thakafi Al-Arabi 1994
Without mentioning the war, Renee el-Hayeck tells a story in which every moment, each event let through a ray of the Lebanese memory. |
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora
Syrine Hout
On Literature
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature 2012
This book analyses the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fiction literature, focusing on texts created during/about life in exile, thus depicting, beyond the civil war period, its crucial and long-standing consequence: expatriation. |
Pourquoi il fait si sombre ?
Dominique Edde
Novel
Seuil 1998
A Lebanese woman comes back to Lebanon after the war and recalls forgotten memories: people and their personal stories during the war, all scarred by its violence. |
Poursuites
Andree Chedid
Poetry
Alternatives 2004
The author illustrates with her poetry Xavier’s 49 sketches, both basing their work on the theme of pursuit: pursuing love, silence… |
Privilège des morts
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Novel
Balland 2001
Wandering through memory, the author tells the story of characters who are neither dead nor alive, neither past nor present, between the past and insanity, dream and reality; since the "privilege of the dead" is that they remain amongst us, if the tragedy didn't end during their life. |
Projecting Beirut. Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of a Modern City
Peter G. Rowe, Hashim Sarkis
Architecture and Urban Studies
Prestel 1998
Urban development in modern Beirut; late 1950s to late 1960s, and planning and reconstruction after the civil war. Urban redevelopment issues; the resolution and celebration of social pluralism and multiculturalism, historic preservation, conservation, and the integration of historic archaeological sites into contemporary urban life. |
Questions sur le Patimoine Architectural et Urbain au Liban
Ziad Akl, Michael E. Davie
Architecture and Urban Studies
Ouest-France 2000
The Lebanese architecture and urban heritage. Identity and Memory through destruction and reconstruction. |
Questions sur le Patrimoine Architectural et Urbain au Liban
Pref. by Ziad Akl, with Michael F. Davie,Mercedes Volait,May Davie,Sawsan Awada Jalu,Noha Ghoussainy,Stephane Loret,Christian Darles,Zeina Misk,Eliane Gebrane-Badlissi,Fadi Chiniara,Fadlallah Dagher, Robert Saliba,Nabil Beyhum,Jean-Paul Lebas,Souad Slim,Mousbah Rajab
Architecture and Urban Studies
ALBA, URBAMA, 2004
A number of texts written by the above mentioned architects on subjects related to the Architectural and Urban Heritage in Lebanon, such as: the Stakes and Identities in the Genesis of the Lebanese Heritage; Using Memory in Reconstruction; the Importance of Urban and Architectural Heritage in post-war Lebanese Society. |
Qu’elle aille au diable Meryl Streep
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Actes-Sud 2004
The intimate story of a newlywed Lebanese couple, their struggle to deal with their own differences as well as with the rapidly evolving attitudes in Lebanon toward virginity, premarital sex, and abortion… depicting a portrait of love, lust, and marriage. |
Rafeeq al-Hareeri wa-qadar Lubnan
Marwan Iskandar
History Analysis
Saqi Books 2006
This book is about Lebanon’s former prime minister self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri’s assassination declared by the United Nations Security Council as an international terrorist act with critical consequences on the regional as well as on the international level. The author describes Hariri’s rise from a modest fruit picker to a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, and prime minister of Lebanon for ten years, and gives an in-depth analysis of the Hariri years. |
Rafic Hariri et le destin du Liban
Marwan Iskandar
History Analysis
Aleph 2006
This book is about Lebanon’s former prime minister self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri’s assassination declared by the United Nations Security Council as an international terrorist act with critical consequences on the regional as well as on the international level. The author describes Hariri’s rise from a modest fruit picker to a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, and prime minister of Lebanon for ten years, and gives an in-depth analysis of the Hariri years. |
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon
Marwan Iskandar
History Analysis
Saqi Books 2006
This book is about Lebanon’s former prime minister self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri’s assassination declared by the United Nations Security Council as an international terrorist act with critical consequences on the regional as well as on the international level. The author describes Hariri’s rise from a modest fruit picker to a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, and prime minister of Lebanon for ten years, and gives an in-depth analysis of the Hariri years. |
Ra’ihat al-saboon
Elias Khoury
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar al-Adab 2000
In this testimony, Elias Khoury tells about the Lebanese civil war that destroyed so much and killed so many… as if to erase the pain he suffered throughout this ordeal. |
Récits bleus
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
Editions Al-Moutanabbi, Paris 1992
In this collection of three short stories “Chagrin d'Amour” (Heartbreak), “Cette douce tyrannie” (This Sweet Tyranny), and “La Terrasse et la Colline” (The Terrace and the Hill), the author depicts the real world where even the worst cruelty is acceptable… |
Récits Roses
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
2001
Two different stories: "Le Rôdeur Nocturne" starts with a rat that entered stealthily in the author's house and settled down in her piano; The second story is about homosexuality, a taboo subject in the Lebanese society. Both stories take place in Tripoli, the author's native town, and are told on its historical, social, geographical and cultural background. |
Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a postwar Arab City
Aseel Sawalha
Architecture and Urban Studies
Univ. of Texas Press 2010
From being the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut, devastated by the civil war, reached a “postwar state of emergency”. This book focuses on the response of the various groups to Beirut's privatized urban-renewal project leading to major special conflicts, but first and foremost on the theme of remembering space. |
Reconstruction et Réconciliation au Liban
Eric Huybrechts, Chawqi Douayhi
Memory, Identity, Society
Cahiers du CERMOC, No 23 1999
The ten years following the end of the war: the reconciliation issue: Reconstruction of the country in order to attain rehabilitation of its people's coexistence. |
Reconstruire Beyrouth : les Paris sur le Possible (Round table at Lyon, 27 - 29 novembre 1990)
Nabil Bayhum
Architecture and Urban Studies
Maison de l'Orient Mediterraneen 1992
The reconstruction of Beirut considering the social, political, legal, economical, geographical and urban structure of Lebanon after 15 years of Civil War. |
Recovering Beirut : Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction
Samir Khalaf (Editor), Philip S. Khoury
Architecture and Urban Studies
Brill Academic Publishers; Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol 47, 1993; and American Bible Society 1993
The result of a workshop organized by the center for International studies at MIT on urban planning and socio-economic reconstruction in post-war Lebanon. |
Réflexions libanaises
Carole Dagher
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan / Pensée religieuse et philosophique arabe 2013
The Lebanese multiple heritage leading to thoughts and questionings on identity, belonging, collective history, and to the space of freedom left to write one's personal history.
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Regards
Jean-Claude Gabriel
Memory, Identity, Society
Self-published, 1997
A collection of all the socio-cultural works of Jean-Claude Gabriel that were published in L'Orient-Le Jour between 1993 and 1997 on the following subjects: prostitution; archaeological sites; music, dance and songs; social service and community development; NGOs; AIDS; ..etc. |
Regards sur Beyrouth
Astrid Gateau, Frederic Soreau, Olivier Dalle
Memory, Identity, Society
Ed. Romain Pages 2002
photos, textes and interviews.
The authors of this book have wandered through the streets and neighbourhoods of Beirut and met with the different communities -Druzes, Maronites, Armenians, Sunnites, Chiites, and the many other micro-communities. And they have questioned the writers: Abbas Beydoun, Alexandre Najjar, Gebran Tuéni, Hanan el Cheikh, Aref Rayess and Ounsi el Hage who live or had lived in this city and have written about it. |
Réglementation et Formes Urbaines. Le Cas de Beyrouth
Elie El-Achkar
Architecture and Urban Studies
Cahiers du CERMOC, No 20 1998
Thorough research on urban issues in post-war Beirut through a study of legislations and their impact on construction in the Lebanese capital. |
Rihlat Ghandi al-Saghir [Le Petit Homme et la Guerre]
Elias Khoury translated by Luc Barbulesco
Novel
arabic ed., french ed. Arléa; 1989, 1995
The tale of a humble shoe shiner living and working in Beirut coming apart during the recent Lebanese-Israeli war. |
Ring Around the Rose, a Female in the Middle Eastern Culture
Houda Sleem
Novel
Bahsoun
Lena, who suffered the injustice of a paternal traditional society, decides to educate herself and her society, and improve the status of Middle-Eastern women. |
Risala min Canada
Renée Hayek
Novel
Dar al-Tanweer publ. 2012
The story of 3 children, 2 brothers and 1 sister, whose mother left them in Lebanon and went to live in Canada with her husband… |
Riwayat Bayroot (The Story of Beirut)
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2010
Through this story of three generation of a Lebanese family, the author recounts the history of Beirut and its struggle. |
