Youmna
Samir Atallah
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1999
Beauty and sufferings of Lebanon, before and after Israel destroyed the Lebanese civilian airplanes in Beirut airport. |
Zaman al-ihtilal (The Time of Occupation)
Elias Khoury
Memoirs and Testimonies
Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-‘Arabiyya 1985
A collection of articles testifying to the difficult period suffered by the Lebanese people after the Israeli invasion, aiming to represent a facet of the national resistance, and presenting various points of view and analysis. |
Zikrayat lam taktamil [Cancelled Memories]
Nazik Saba Yared
Novel
Saqi Books (arabic); Syracuse Univ. Press (english) 2008, 2009
The story of a Lebanese family, during the civil war, seeking to maintain love and trust for each other despite the destructive and corrupting effects of war: the increasing economic, social, and psychological tensions. |
Zyad ou l’évanescence
Louis Ingea
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2002
The story of Zyad - a man from the Lebanese mountain clinging to his traditions and who only dreams of traveling-, and Anna -a girl from Beirut who's holding on to her war-torn country-. |
‘Ali al-imreeki (Ali the American)
Hala Kawtharani
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2011
A love story between a young Lebanese girl and Ali who came back to live in his native South Lebanon after 22 years in the USA. |
‘Ali wa-ummuh al-Roosiyya
Alexandra Chreiteh
Novel
Arab Scientific Publ. 2009
This story of two young people, a boy and a girl, with Russian mothers, at the outbreak of Lebanon’ July 2006 war, who flee to Moscow and bond on their way there, portrays Lebanon’s taboos surrounding gender, sexual, religious, and national identities. |
‘Ara’is fee al-mawlid: dirasat hawl al-mar’a al-‘arabiyya
Mona Mikhail
On Literature
Dar al-Arabi publ. 1987
Essays around the subject of the way female characters are represented in Arabic literature. |
