Romans
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Mille & une pages); 1998
9 novels |
Rutbat al-ghiyab (Hierarchies of Absence)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 2000
Book 2 of the “Hadeeqat al-fajr” trilogy: Texts mirroring the author’s feelings in relation to reactions, premonitions, thoughts and ideas concerning time, the body, women, cities, love…. |
Rythmes
Andree Chedid
Poetry
Gallimard (Blanche) 2003
A meditation on the time that goes by, sets the rhythm of our lives and shapes us. |
SAHRA TANAKKURIYYA LIL-MAWTA
Ghada Samman
Novel
Ghada Samman Publ. 2003
Seven Lebanese immigrants and a French doctor come for the holidays to Beirut “this city that has changed or isn’t anymore”, a city of social, regional and international struggles, where free men are at a risk of choking; so they leave or dream of leaving. |
Saint Georges regardait ailleurs
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Actes-Sud 2013
The Lebanese civil war portrayed through the eyes of a young man uprooted by the conflict, a victim of the sectarian reality in Lebanon during this period: born a Muslim, brought up a Christian, the hero of this novel is trapped in the growing madness of the civil war, always at the wrong place at the wrong time… |
SAKHRAT AL-RAWSHE
Latifa Al-Hage Kudaih
Novel
Dar Al-Farabi 2003
Haifa wonders why this young man she has been seeing for some time now and who had never showed strong feelings towards her, suddenly tells her he loves her; “does he really love her? Or the psychology student she is?” |
SAKR QURAYSH
Karam Melhem Karam
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
Historical novel. |
Salat min ajl al-‘a’ila (Prayer for the Family)
Renée Hayek
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2007
This novel depicts the difficulties encountered by a Lebanese family in their struggle when they are forced to relocate their lives as a result of the civil war. |
Samarcande
Amin Maalouf
Novel
JC Lattès 1988
This novel is about the Persia of Omar Khayyam, poet and astronomist, but also that of Hassan Sabbay, founder of the Assassins order. |
Sanat al-otomateek
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 1996
In 1960s Beirut, our young hero works in the family bakery and spends his free time with his friends. He sings all day while the exhausted employees dream of becoming wrestlers… until his father buys the revolutionary new bread-making machine and they must adapt and forget about their dreams. |
Saraya
Jihad Darwiche illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1991
Traditional Lebanese tale: an ogre falls in love with Saraya who is meant to marry his cousin. |
Seen and Heard (A Century of Arab Women in Literature and Culture)
Mona Mikhail
On Art / On Literature
Interlink Books 2004
A collection of essays on how Arab women see themselves and are seen, through literature, film, popular culture, and law in a rapidly changing reality. |
Seenalkool
Elias Khoury
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2012
This novel depicting a portrait of Lebanese society since the 1960s tells the story of two brothers, a medical student and a leftist, both in love with the same girl who marries the leftist after the medical student goes to settle in France… until the latter leaves his wife and children in France, and goes back to Lebanon to find a man known only as Sinalcol. |
Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East
Evelyne Accad
Memory, Identity, Society
New York University Press 1990
Why do men and women both react differently to the reality of war - in a cultural and a social context. |
SHAIRAT Al AARABIYA [Poetess of Arabia]
Joseph Noujeim
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 2003
A documented work that sheds a light on the Arab inspired poetesses of ancient times. |
Shareed al-manazil (St. George Was Looking Away / Chased Away / The Vagrant)
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 2010
The Lebanese civil war portrayed through the eyes of a young man uprooted by the conflict, a victim of the sectarian reality in Lebanon during this period: born a Muslim, brought up a Christian, the hero of this novel is trapped in the growing madness of the civil war, always at the wrong place at the wrong time… |
Shoohida wa-sumi‘: qarn min al-nisa’ al-‘arabiyyat fee al-adab w-al-thaqafa
Mona Mikhail
On Art / On Literature
Dar al-Arabi 2003
A collection of essays on how Arab women see themselves and are seen, through literature, film, popular culture, and law in a rapidly changing reality. |
Sinalcol: le miroir brisé
Elias Khoury
Novel
Actes-Sud 2013
This novel depicting a portrait of Lebanese society since the 1960s tells the story of two brothers, a medical student and a leftist, both in love with the same girl who marries the leftist after the medical student goes to settle in France… until the latter leaves his wife and children in France, and goes back to Lebanon to find a man known only as Sinalcol. |
SIRNA Al-LISTA
Jawad Sidawi
Novel
Dar Al-Farabi 2002
The narrator wonders about life, old age and death (the different kinds of deaths); in Lebanon after the Civil War. |
Sitt Marie-Rose
Etel Adnan translated by Georgina Kleege
Novel
Post-Apollo Press 1978 and 1997
In Beirut., Marie-Rose because of her sympathies for the Palestinian refugees, and her love for a Palestinian man, has relinquished the protection of her people, the Christians. |
Soleil de nuit : Rilke, Fondane, Stétié, Tuéni
Jad Hatem
On Literature
idLivre (coll. Esquilles) 2002
A study on the poetry of Rilke, Fondane, Salah Stétié and Nadia Tuéni. Who all tell, each one in his own way, through his own culture, about the existence of a "night sun" that illuminates the hearts of men. |
Somewhere, Home
Nada Awar Jarrar
Novel
Random House 2003
A novel about the lives of three women who live through war, displacement, separation and exile but are all linked by a special house in Mount Lebanon which is a sentimental symbol of home. |
Sourat al-Fata bil-Ahmar: Ayyam fil-Silm wal-Harb<br>A Portrait of the Young Man in Red: Chronicles of Peace and War
Fawwaz Traboulsi
History Analysis
Riad el-Rayyes Books 1997
A book on a political itinerary covering a long period of time focusing on principal events of the modern Arad History written as a memoir of an adventurer going from place to place, and from time to time. |
Sous la tonnelle
Hyam Schoucair Yared
Novel
Ed. Sabine Wespieser 2009
This novel tells the story of an old woman of Armenian origin, widowed at the age of thirty-one, in Beirut during the civil war, who decided to devote her life to others, and who gradually turns out to be complex and mysterious. |
Sous le soleil d'Occident
Ghassan Fawaz
Novel
Seuil 1998
Paris,end of the seventies, two twenty-five years old Lebanese students: a well-of Christian and a poor Muslim, remember the war. |
Sous les branches du grenadier
May Menassa
Memoirs and Testimonies
Encre d’Orient 2012
A woman’s memories of a family secret that hurt her more than the civil war in Lebanon. |
South Lebanon
Samih K. Farsoun, Elaine Hagopian
History Analysis
Association of Arab-American University Graduates 1978
Informative short book about South Lebanon and the historical events that have affected the region. |
Splendide Solitude
Abla Farhoud
Memoirs and Testimonies
L'Hexagone 2001
Through this voyage in the depth of her intimacy, the author lays bare her femininity and her solitary woman's soul. |
State & Society in Syria & Lebanon, 1919-1991
Youssef M. Choueiri
History Analysis
Saint Martin's Press LLC 1994
A comparative study of the neighboring Middle Eastern countries since the end of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate, and the struggles for independence to the 1991 treaty of cooperation: government policies and practices, economics, and concepts of Arabism and nationalism. |
State and Society in Lebanon
Edited by Leila Fawaz
History Analysis
Tufts University and the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford 1991
War in Lebanon broke out whenever some social, economic, or political event upset its delicate balance and disrupted the equilibrium. |
Struggle for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations
Nasser Kalawoun
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
The author, a freelance journalist and translator, explains Lebanon's survival mainly from the 1950s to 1970s in the minefield of Arab politics and its relations with Egypt during the period 1952-70 that have passed through several phases. |
Struggle over Lebanon
Tabitha Petran
History Analysis
Monthly Review Press 1987
Analysis of the origins and development of the Lebanese Civil War, and the role of foreign powers and the local leadership that allied itself to them. |
Sud Liban scénarios de crise
M. Chartouni-Dubarry
History Analysis
2001
The two wars happening at the same time: the one the U.S.A. launched against terrorism after September 11th, 2001; the second one: the Israeli-Palestinian war that had started one year earlier.. Both turning the attention away from the Lebanese-Israeli hot spot. |
SUKKAN AL-SOUR
Mohammad Abi Samra
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
A story depicting social characteristics of a Lebanese community in a Lebanese region. |
Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process
Marius Deeb
History Analysis
Palgrave Macmillan 2003
"A book on the ways of dictatorship in Syria; offering an analysis of the Syrian regime of Hafez Assad; demonstrating that Syria's role in the Middle East has been, since 1974, an unabated terrorist war against all attempts to resolve peacefully the Arab-Israeli conflict; providing evidence that Syria's role in Lebanon, since 1975, has been to perpetuate the conflict among the various Lebanese communities in order to keep its domination of Lebanon." |
Tabiq 99 (Floor 99)
Jana Elhassan
Novel
Manshoorat Dafaf 2014
In this post-civil war Lebanese story, a Palestinian man –whose family was dismantled after the Sabra and Chatila massacre– is living in New York where he falls in love with a Lebanese Christian who wants to go to her Mount Lebanon village in search of her roots… |
Tair A'la Sindiyana [A Bird on an Oak]
Kamal Salibi
Memoirs and Testimonies
Al-Shuruk House 2002
The autobiography -written at age 73- of one of the most respected Lebanese historians and social-political thinkers, detailing his experiences and travels. |
TAIR AALA SINDIYANA
Kamal Salibi
Memoirs and Testimonies
Al-Shuruk House 2002
The autobiography -written at age 73- of one of the most respected Lebanese historians and social-political thinkers, detailing his experiences and travels. |
Tajaeed al-Ahlam
Chakib Khoury
Novel
Presset 2000
Lebanon since 1958, through characters, dialogues and situations. |
Taqreer Mehlis
Rabee Jaber
History Analysis
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2005
About the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafic Hariri. |
Tareekh Lubnan al-hadeeth
Fawwaz Traboulsi
History Analysis
Riad al-Rayyes Books 2006
The first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period, based on previously inaccessible archives, written by a leading Lebanese scholar. |
Tarikh Loubnan Al-Hadith
Kamal Salibi
History Analysis
Dar An-Nahar 1991 (first ed. 1967)
An objective account of the History of Modern Lebanon throughout the last two centuries. |
Tawahin Bayrut
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Novel
Dar al-Adab publ. 1972
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. |
TAWAKKAFU, UREED AN ANZIL
Fawzi Yammine
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
Various ideas and thoughts of the author on a number of subjects to be interpreted differently by the different readers. |
Ta’ammulat fee shaqa’ al-‘arab
Samir Kassir
Memory, Identity, Society
Dar al-Nahar 2005
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. |
Terra Nova, pour un monde nouveau
Simon Géara
Novel
Self-Published 2009
While the whole world is in crisis, in Byblos, land of the alphabet, young people create a bridge between men: an alphabet of love that will become the language of all people to share solidarity and respect. |
Terre blanche, Journal d'un Otage au Liban
Antoine Joseph Assaf
Memoirs and Testimonies
Fayard - le Sarment 2001
The testimony of a professor of philosophy who spent 15 months as a hostage in a 2m2 cell, and analyzed as a 'professional' his own reactions and thoughts. |
The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences
Gilbert, Michel Achcar, Warsawski
History Analysis
Paradigm. Publ. 2007
This book examines the causes and consequences of the impact of israel’s war on Lebanon, describing Hezbollah’s position among the Shiites as well as Lebanon’s other religious communities and political forces, and analysing the roles of Syria, Iran, Hamas, the United States, and Europe. |
The Body in Islamic Culture
Fouad I. Khouri
Memory, Identity, Society
Saqi Books 2001
The author, an anthropologist, “explores the different meanings and images related to the body in Islam and how these permeate religious practices and social attitudes among people, and the numerous ways the body communicates messages, attitudes and feelings through unspoken language.” |
The Boy from the Tower of the Moon
Anwar F. Accawi, Helene Atwan
Novel
Beacon Pr. 1999
A memoir of life in a small Lebanese village right after the Second World War. |
