The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Telegram Books 2008
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. |
This House, My Bones
Elmaz Abinader
Poetry
Aquarius Press 2014
A collection of poems through which the author tells about love, yearning, hope, memory, resistance, injustice, and death. |
Tikaniyyat al-Bou's
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes Books
Memories of every day life in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. |
Tistifil Meryl Streep
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes Books 2001
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. |
Toot barri
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Al-Masar li-al-Nashr w-al-Abhath w-al-Tawtheeq 2001
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. |
Toute une histoire
Hanan el-Sheikh
Memoirs and Testimonies
Actes-Sud 2010
In this memoir, the author relates the extraordinary life of her mother. |
Toward a Viable Lebanon
Halim I. Barakat
History Analysis
Croon Helm publications 1988
The viability of Lebanon, with consideration given to practical solutions to reconstructing the country: An analysis of the socioeconomic, religious and historical forces that led to the civil war, and its social and psychological consequences. |
Traces de Beyrouth
Dominique Bonzi
Memory, Identity, Society
Bonzi (bilingual English / French) 2009
Photos portraying the ever astonishing city of Beirut. |
Trésors
Ramzi Salame
Tales
FMA 2003
A journey through time and throughout Lebanon of two friends seeking easy money. A search which quickly reveals itself to be illusory. |
Tuyoor al-Holiday Inn (Birds of the Holiday Inn)
Rabee Jaber
Novel
Dar al-Tanweer 2011
At the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon, Beirut was split into West and East and the fiercest battles were fought downtown where the city’s most famous hotel stood: the Holiday Inn. |
U.S. Intervention in Lebanon, 1958 and 1982: Presidential Decision Making
Agnes C. Korbani
History Analysis
Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated 1991
Comparative study on the intervention of the United States in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982, 'which contrasts the decision making of Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan and the quality and results of their choices.' |
UBUR AL-RUKAM
Antoine Al-Duwaihi
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
"In this dream, I felt like flying away, as I usually do when the night approaches. But this time, it was early morning. And I was not alone as usual, there were two persons with me. A man and a woman whose faces I cannot remember quite clearly… I think the woman was "Vienna’s Airport Woman" and the man, someone who had died with his brother while I was living in exile…" |
Un Quartier de Beyrouth. Saint-Nicolas: Structures familiales et structures foncières
Leila Salameh Kamel
Memory, Identity, Society
Dar el-Machreq & U.S.J. Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines (Coll. Hommes et Sociétés du Proche-Orient), 1998
A work (texts, maps and family trees) on the deep changes that affected Saint-Nicolas, caused by the random urbanisation of Beirut (1960-1995) dictated by financial interests of individuals and out of control during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1992), but essentially related to the land property/family structure in this sector. |
Un réformisme chiite. Ulémas et lettrés du Gabal'Amil (actuel Liban-Sud) de la fin de l'Empire ottoman à l'indépendance du Liban
Sabrine Mervin
Memory, Identity, Society
Karthala, Cermoc, IFEAD 2000
The first section of the book contains a study of the Islamic religious scientists "elite". The second section is a study of the "Shiite reformism". |
Un secret atomique : La Bombe iranienne ou la véritable histoire des otages français au Liban
Dominique Lorentz
History Analysis
Les Arènes 2002
This Books reveals what Jacques Chirac really conceded to Iran's Ayatollah's in 1988 to free the French Hostages; why François Mitterrand signed, in 1991, a secret agreement that makes of France one of the principal partners of Iran in their atomic plan; and shows that after September 11th, the "nuclear relations" between both countries are more "explosive" than ever. |
Un soir à Beyrouth (nouvelles)
Sélim Nassib
Novel
Ed. Thierry Magnier 2007
Lebanon that has witnessed wars, attacks, occupation, exile, ever-present in the eyes of ordinary men and women who have to live with the consequences. |
Undeserving Lebanon
Jalal Toufic
On Art
Forthcoming Books 2007
According to the thinker, Middle-Eastern culture must think beyond justice, commemoration, historicization and reparation in order to create original works of art, experiment, and concepts in relation to the events in Lebanon during the civil war. |
Une Francophonie Différentielle
Selim Abou, Katia Haddad
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan 2000 (1st ed.1994)
The French language that has succeeded in remaining Lebanon's second spoken language. (subject of the symposium about 'french as a second spoken language' that took place in Beirut in May 1993). |
United States and the 1958 Lebanon Crisis : American Intervention in the Middle East
Erika G. Alin
History Analysis
University Press of America 1994
A study on the U.S.-Middle East relations between 1953 and 1957: The U.S. Policy relatively to the Lebanese Crisis. Their intervention and its aftermath, as well as the consequences of the Lebanese Crisis for U.S.-Middle East Policy. |
Unreal City
Tony Hanania
Novel
Bloomsbury 1999
The narrator, a rich and educated Lebanese from the mountains, returns to the ruined city, Beirut, haunted by memories of his country's fractured past to search for the mistress who betrayed him in his youth. |
Urban Unrest in the Middle East : A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon (Suny Series in the Social and Economic history)
Guilain Denoeux
Architecture and Urban Studies
State Univ of New York Press, 1993
A systematic study of the politics of Middle Eastern cities in a historical and comparative context. Focusing on informal patron- client, occupational, religious, and residential networks, argues that, contrary to the prevailing assumption, such networks do not necessarily play a stabilizing role, but since 1800 have repeatedly been effective instruments for mobilizing popular dissent. |
Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Modern Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World
Evelyne Accad
Memory, Identity, Society
Indiana University 1978
Comprehensive study of the plight of women in the Arab World. |
Vendredi, dimanche
Khalid Ziyadah, Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
Memoirs and Testimonies
Actes Sud/Sindbad (Mémoires de la Méditerranée) 1996
Through the account of his memoirs in Tripoli -Lebanon- in the 1950s. and 1960s., the author tells about the fate of the Mediterranean cities still haunted by a past that's threatened by a much desired but fearsome modernity. |
Victime et Bourreau
Joseph Saade, Frederic Brunnquell, Frederic Couderc
Memoirs and Testimonies
Calmann-Levy 1989
A Lebanese journalist avenges the death of both his murdered sons. |
Vie et Mort des Chrétiens d'Orient: des origines à nos jours
Jean-Pierre Valognes
History Analysis
Fayard 1994
What's the fate of the Christians of the Middle-east locked up in a status of 'protected minority' by the muslims, thus devoided of any rights and under the domination of the Islamic religion. |
Ville A Vif
Imane Hemaidan Younes
Novel
Verticales 2004
About the Civil War in Lebanon and its consequences on family life through the portrait of four women illustrating four attitudes towards this drama : silence, scream, impetuosity, resignation. |
Violence and diplomacy in Lebanon: the troubled years, 1982-1988
Elie Adib Salem
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1995
'Lebanon . . . the site for regional and international conflict played out through its warring communities' in the eighties, since the Israeli invasion. |
Visage Retrouvé
Wajdi Mouawad
Novel
Actes Sud 2002
Wahab, a 14 year old boy comes back home one day after school and doesn't recognize his mother's face. Reality starts breaking up before his eyes. While his initiation to the lies in the world begins, he runs away from home, beyond himself and, within a few days, alone and almost going mad, he'll experiment fear and beauty, with an underlying anger. |
Voyages en Cancer
Evelyne Accad
Novel
L'Harmattan 2000
The personal and social acceptance of cancer, and life that goes on. |
War and Intervention in Lebanon: The Israeli-Syrian Deterrence Dialogue
Yair Evron
History Analysis
Johns Hopkins University Press 1987
The background of the Lebanese civil war: Israeli strategy and Syrian military action from 1975 through the mid-1980s. “indirectly channeled through Washington.” |
War and Memory in Lebanon
Sune Haugbolle
On Art / On Literature
Cambridge Univ. Press 2010
The author analyses different cultural productions that emerged from the wreckage of the war –media, art, literature, film, posters, and architecture– to demonstrate how the recollection and reconstruction contributed to heal Lebanon. |
War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Miriam Cooke
Memory, Identity, Society
Cambridge University Press 1988
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. |
Watching From a Distance: A Stroll Through Time and Place
Ibrahim Yared
Memory, Identity, Society
Saqi Books 2001
After 'a tornado sweeps across a country . . . People look, when calm is restored, to see what remains and start worrying about their personal problems all over again . . . There is always a new image and their original forms become unrecognizable . . . They start to sort out their problems. For some, there are health problems, for others, identity dilemmas, family concerns or loneliness, and life goes on . . .' |
What happened to Zekko [Yawmiyat Hirr]
Emily Nasrallah
Novel
english ed. Naufal Group; arabic ed. Dar Al-Kitab Al-Aalami; 1998, 1997
A novel for children about the Lebanese war drawn from truth and fact, because 'we ought to remember and consider, so that the past will be a lesson for future generations'. |
What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Univ. of Texas Press 2015
A “novelized biography” by Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif and and the riposte of German novelist Joachim Helfer demonstrating how attitudes toward sex and masculinity across cultural contexts are intertwined with the work of fiction, thereby highlighting the importance of fantasy in understanding the Other”; Rashid al-Daif talks about his encounter with gay Joachim Helfer, highlighting that the HIV virus is more widely-spread in gay communities, and not missing an opportunity to claim his heterosexuality loud and clear and say that life without women is colorless. This book also includes essays by specialists in Arabic and German literature shedding light on the discourse around sex between the two authors from different cultural contexts. |
Whispers, bedtime stories for grown-ups
Abeer Ghraizi
Tales
Al-Furat 2009
A collection of real and fictitious thoughts and short stories about life, death, love, hope, choices and regrets. |
Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep?
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Univ. of Texas Press 2014
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. |
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Gary Paul Nabhan
Memory, Identity, Society
Island Press 2004
A culinary voyage across every culture and its traditional cuisine to help solve the riddles created by the “ghosts of evolution” within. |
Wild Mulberries
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Interlink Publ. Group 2008
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. |
Women and the War Story
Miriam Cooke
Memory, Identity, Society
The University of California Press 1997
The author shows how women who write themselves and their experiences into the War Story undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality, and glory. |
Women and War in Lebanon
Edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh
Memory, Identity, Society
University Press of Florida 1999
These authors examine the impact of the 1975-90 civil war in Lebanon on women. |
Women in Lebanon: Living with Christianity, Islam, and Multiculturalism
Marie-Claude Thomas
Memory, Identity, Society
Palgrave Macmillan 2013
This book describes and analyses the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis through insider as well as outsider views of the Christian and Muslim Lebanese women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. |
Women of Lebanon: Interviews With Champions for Peace
Nelda Lateef
Memoirs and Testimonies
McFarland & Co 1997
Interviews with 42 Lebanese women - from arts and literature, education, government, law, social work, the media, business and medicine - who, despite seventeen years of civil war, successfully protected their natural heritage and helped to restore order within their society. |
Women of Sand and Myrrh
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
Anchor 1992
The author relates the hard life of four women in an unnamed desert state. |
Ya salam
Najwa Barakat
Novel
Dar al-Adab 1999
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. |
Ya salam!
Najwa Barakat
Novel
Actes-Sud 2012
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. |
Yalo
Elias Khoury
Novel
Dar Al-Adab (arabic), Actes Sud (french); The french edition is translated by Rania Samara; 2001, 2004
The Lebanese society through the eyes of a combatant: his life with his family before the Lebanese Civil War, his experience as a combatant, and his post-war life. |
YAWM AL-DEEN
Rasha Al-Amir
Novel
Dar Al-Jadeed 2002
The author reports the ideas and words of a Sheikh on the subject of religious fanatism. |
Yawmiyat Hirr [What happened to Zekko]
Emily Nasrallah
Novel
arabic ed. Dar Al-Kitab Al-Aalami; english ed. Naufal Group; 1997, 1998
A novel for children about the Lebanese war drawn from truth and fact, because 'we ought to remember and consider, so that the past will be a lesson for future generations'. |
YAWMIYYAT MOUHAJER
Mahmoud Shreih
Novel
Dar Nelson 2003
A compilation of thoughts of a Lebanese immigrant written between 1992 and 1997 in Budapest, in Vienna but mostly in France, and were published in Arabic newspapers. |
