An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Lara Deeb
Memory, Identity, Society
Princeton Univ. Press 2006
A portrayal of Beirut’s Shi’i community in Beirut who considers itself at once modern, cosmopolitan, and pious, leading to an analysis of the ways piety is understood and expressed individually and collectively. |
An Occasion for War : Lebanon and Damascus in the 1860s
Leila Fawaz
History Analysis
The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993
The 1860 civil wars in Mount Lebanon which spilled over to Syria to become "the most severe sectarian outbreak in the history of Ottoman Syria and Lebanon." |
An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine
Novel
Grove Press 2014
This novel depicts the portrait of a reclusive woman and her visions of past and present Beirut, describing her memories of the civil war in Lebanon and her own life. |
ANA, HIYA, ANTI
Elham Mansour
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes Books 2000
A novel about the homosexuality amongst women in the Middle-Eastern society where they already are considered as being inferior -so how dare they show another flaw?!-. A subject that also attacks this male society showing the inability of men to satisfy women. |
Anatomie de la Francophonie Libanaise
Selim Abou, Choghig Kasparian, Katia Haddad
Memory, Identity, Society
AUPELF-UREF/USJ, Coll. Universités Francophones 1996
French-speaking in Lebanon confronted with the 'arabisation in education and the competition against English as the second-spoken language. |
Anine Al'Ghadab
Gebran Massoud
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar An-Nahar 1999
The author tells about what he saw of the sufferings the Lebanese people went through because of the war. |
Arab Cinema
Viola Shafik
On Art
The American University in Cairo Press 1998
An illustrated study on cinema in the Arab World 'tracing its development from colonial times to the late 20th century, combining a detailed history - economic, ideological, and aesthetic - with in-depth analysis.' |
Arab Women in Love & War: Fleeting Eternities
Ghada Samman
Poetry
Createspace 2009
In this poetry collection, the author addresses issues concerning women and the Lebanese civil war, socially and historically, expressing pain and loss caused by her own separation from her nation, and asserting that the nation can begin its social transformation through expressing the erotic and accepting female sexuality. |
Architecture in Lebanon: the Lebanese house during the 18th and 19th centuries
Friedrich Ragette
Architecture and Urban Studies
Caravan Books, 2001; Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade), 1975; American University of Beirut Publications, 1974 2001, 1975, 1974
A description of “the plans, construction, exterior and interior design, and also the origin of the various morphological types of Lebanese houses.” |
Archives Sentimentales d'une Guerre au Liban
Nadia Tueni
Poetry
Pauvert 1982
Last collection of poems written by Nadia Tueni a few months before she died from cancer. They are a result of the personal ordeal of the author, and the sufferings of Lebanon during one of the most tragic periods of the war. |
As Though She Were Sleeping
Elias Khoury
Novel
Humphrey Davies 2011
The story of Milia depicts the profound conflicts of the 1947 Arab World: in order to “hide away” from her new husband and society, she lives in a dream-world where she converses with the dead and foresees the future, until this parallel realm becomes more familiar and easy to live with than "reality", and both become increasingly entangled. |
Asabi' Mariam
Aida Saidi
Novel
World Book Publishing 1998
A child in south Lebanon after the Israeli Invasion |
ASHYA BASEETA
Nada Moughaizel Nasr
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
"One day, images came to my mind… I picked them in the language they came in and wrote them down serenely. I did not consider myself a writer, and thought that idea funny, stupid…" |
Asma une Jeune Fille du Liban
Elham Chamoun-Abdelnour
Novel
L'Harmattan 2000
Torn between religious faith and love, Asma drives the reader through a war-torn country, Lebanon. |
Au-delà des minorités
Joseph Yacoub
Memory, Identity, Society
Editions de l'Atelier 2000
An important issue in the struggle for human rights: identities, minoritary peolples and native communities. This work relates the significant raise of identity related protest movements. The author -a political Science and International Relations Professor- analyses the causes behind that, wondering about where all this will lead, and proposes a solution. |
Autumn Equinox
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Univ. of Arkansas Press 2001
This is the diary of a young man who returns from his college in the United States to his Lebanese village, and tries to adjust to his environment, and even to redefine himself, faced with his new reality and the people in his village, far from his college years. |
Aux Frontières des Deux Genres : en Hommage à Andrée Chédid
Carmen Boustani (directed by)
On Literature
Karthala 2004
A compilation of texts in homage to Andrée Chédid’s writings based on her aesthetic journey between the literary "genre" and the feminine "genre". |
Awdat al-almani ila rushdihi (The Return of the German to His Senses)
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Riad El-Rayye; Al-Saqi Book 2012
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. |
Awraq min dafatir shajarat rumman (Pages from Notebooks of a Pomegrenate Tree)
May Menassa
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar al-Nahar 1998
A woman’s memories of a family secret that hurt her more than the civil war in Lebanon. |
Ayyam Barees (Days of Paris)
Renée Hayek
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2004
The story of three persons living between post-war Beirut and Paris: a daughter travelling, a mother remembering, and a doctor who can’t find his lost brother. |
AYYAM BAYRUT
Nazek Saba Yared
Novel
Dar Al-Kitab Al-Alami 2002
The adventures of Farid in Beirut -a city he had never been to before- with good people he meets on his way, throughout his journey. |
Ayyam Za'idat [Des jours en trop]
Hassan Daoud
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al Jadeed; french ed. translated by Edwige Lambert, Actes-Sud/Sindbad; 1990 and 2000, 1998
A man dying, scared of death listens to his son telling him how easy it is, as if he were not afraid of his own death. |
AYYUHUMA HUA
Elham Mansour
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes Books 2003
"At the end of the first day, we all prayed and went to bed. I cannot describe the first night we spent in the convent; I slept alone in a bed. It was the first time this had ever happened to me. I used to sleep in my mother’s bed on the floor. Her warmth was enough for me, even during the coldest nights. I did not feel warm during that night, even though it was summer. I stayed awake the whole night, almost shivering. Was it the cold? No, it was this fast travel in time: In one day, I had crossed a distance equal to many years, I had crossed the distance and the time period between the gas lamp and the electric lamp. Can this happen in a few hours?" |
Azizi al-Sayyid Kawabata [Dear Mr Kawabata - Cher Monsieur Kawabata]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
arabic ed. Mokhtarat; Riad el-Rayyes; english ed. translated by Paul Starkey, Quartet Books; french ed. translated by Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, Actes Sud
During the last days of the Lebanese Civil War, a young lebanese man dying, writes a letter to Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese novelist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature and killed himslef in 1972; creating/imagining a dialogue with him about dying, free will and the value of memory. |
Azizi al-Sayyid Kawabata [Dear Mr Kawabata - Cher Monsieur Kawabata]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
2nd ed. in arabic, Riad el-Rayyes; arabic ed. Mokhtarat; english ed. translated by Paul Starkey, Quartet Books; french ed. translated by Yves Gonzale
During the last days of the Lebanese Civil War, a young lebanese man dying, writes a letter to Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese novelist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature and killed himslef in 1972; creating/imagining a dialogue with him about dying, free will and the value of memory. |
B as in Beirut
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Interlink Books
This novel tells the story of four women living in the same Beirut apartment during the civil war, and their daily struggles, each one having to deal with her personal problems. |
B comme Beyrouth: ville à vif
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Éditions Le Sycomore 1997
This novel tells the story of four women living in the same Beirut apartment during the civil war, and their daily struggles, each one having to deal with her personal problems. |
B mithl Bayrut mithl Bayt
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Al-Hay’a al-‘Amma li-Qusur al-Thaqafa
This novel tells the story of four women living in the same Beirut apartment during the civil war, and their daily struggles, each one having to deal with her personal problems. |
Bab al-Shams [La Porte du soleil]
Elias Khoury
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; french ed. Actes Sud; 1998, 2002
In an almost disused hospital of the Chatila camp in Lebanon, the narrator, in order to revive his spiritual father -a hero of the Palestinian resistance- from a coma, relates the Lebanese Civil War that has just ended, the most important events of his own existence and the often painful stories of men and women snatched by History after their expulsion from Palestine in 1948. |
Bagdad: Des morts qui sonnent plus fort que d'autres [Baghdad: Deaths Untold]
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
Ed. des Ecrivains (french); Linus publ. (english) 2006, 2011
A novel including chapters relating stories set in Palestine, Lebanon and Baghdad, all three sharing the war experience… |
Balad al-Thulooj (The Land of the Snows)
Renée Hayek
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2001
This novel portrays exile and identity through the story of a man who left Lebanon in 1984 during the civil war at the age of 18, and came back at age 33. |
Balafres ou Le silence de la Méditerranée
Ezza Agha Malak
Memoirs and Testimonies
L'Harmattan 2013
A story about war, love, friendship, hatred, the sacred, political power, faith and corruption… through a saga of the Lebanese war. |
Bareed Mista3jil
Meem
Memoirs and Testimonies
Ciel 2009
A collection of true stories by Lebanese lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals. |
Barid Bayrut [Beirut Blues - Poste Restante: Beyrouth]
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
arabic ed. Riwayat al Hilal; english ed. Doubleday & Company, Inc.; french ed. Actes Sud; 1992, 1996, 1995
The problems and hopes of a part of this Lebanese society attached to their torn country, refusing to let go of real life and hide out in the unreal world of arms, or the false world of exile. |
Battle of Beirut: Why Israel Invaded Lebanon
Michael Jansen
History Analysis
Zed Press 1982
"Book condemning Israel's invasion, through which Jansen does not hide her sympathy for the Palestinians, nor for the innocent Lebanese caught in the crossfire of their conflict with the Israelis. She places the invasion firmly in the context of previous Israeli aggression and expansionism, showing clearly that it differed only in degree-not in kind-from earlier Israeli operations." |
Bayn intizarayn (Between Two Periods of Waiting): short stories
Fatin al-Murr
Novel
Dar al-Jadeed 1999
Two neighbors, a man and a woman, both refugees, who acquaintance develops into friendship then into a kind of love mirroring life in Lebanon, a love that lives by the day… |
Bayrut '75 [Beirut '75]
Ghada Samman
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Taliaat; english ed. translated by Nancy N. Roberts, University of Arkansas Press; 1974, 1995
Through the stories of five characters who discover, in Beirut, they are victims of corruption, class discrimination and blind allegiance to tradition, the author defines the struggles of the Lebanese society, depicting prophetically the social and political causes of the Lebanese civil war in 1975. |
BAYRUT 2002
Renee Al-Hayek
Novel
Al-Markaz Al-Thakafy Al-Arabi 2003
A novel separated in parts; each one relative to one of the characters: three young AUB students during the year 2002; their life in the city of Beirut, in Hamra street, Bliss street, their dorms, and Monnot street, and one of these students’ grandfather recalling all his memories of Lebanon. |
BAYRUT WA NAHR AL-KHIYANAT
Mohammad Ali Al-Yusufy
Novel
Dar Al-Farabi 2002
A novel about the obsession of a Lebanese immigrant with a woman he left in Lebanon during the Civil War, who had had a number of “boyfriends”. His return to her after the war. |
Because They Hate
Brigitte Gabriel
Memoirs and Testimonies
St. Martin’s Press 2006
Through her personal memoirs of her childhood when her village in South Lebanon was attacked by Muslim fundamentalists in 1975, the author describes the Lebanese civil war as the first front of what would later become the worldwide djihad, and blames the west for their ignorance and lack of understanding of the Middle-East depicting the historical, social, and religious aspects that resulted in this major critical conflict. |
Being Arab
Samir Kassir
Memory, Identity, Society
Verso 2006
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. |
Beirut
Hassan N. Diab
Memory, Identity, Society
Praeger Pub Text 1999
Beirut, 'Switzerland of the Middle East' between 1943 and 1975; the social and regional disparities which increased the magnitudes of the disparities that plagued the country and led to increased social unrest. |
Beirut Blues [Barid Bayrut - Poste Restante: Beyrouth]
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
english ed. Doubleday & Company, Inc.; arabic ed. Riwayat al Hilal; french ed. Actes Sud; 1996, 1992, 1995
The problems and hopes of a part of this Lebanese society attached to their torn country, refusing to let go of real life and hide out in the unreal world of arms, or the false world of exile. |
Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir
Jean-Said Makdissi
Memoirs and Testimonies
Persea Books 1990
Beirut Fragments is a personal portrait of life in a torn city -Beirut- during 15 years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. |
Beirut God's Boot Camp
Thomas M. Iannucci
Memoirs and Testimonies
Publish America Inc. 2002
The true account of the time of a young U.S. Marine in Beirut -" one of the most hostile cities in the world, during one of its most tumultuous times, in the mid to late 1980’s"- at his new post: The U.S. Embassy. |
Beirut Nightmares [Kawabis Bayrut]
Ghada Samman
Novel
english ed. translated by Nancy N. Roberts, Quartet Books; arabic ed.; 1976, 1997
At the height of the Lebanese Civil War, the narrator, trapped in her apartment for two weeks writes a series of vignettes peopled by those suffering in the conflict. |
Beirut Noir
Iman Humaydan (Editor)
Tales
Akashic Books Expected publ. 2015
Brand-new stories by Rawi Hage, Muhammad Abi Samra, Leila Eid, Hala Kawtharani, Marie Tawk, Bana Baydoun, Hyam Yared, Najwa Barakat, Alawiyeh Sobh, Mazen Zahreddine, Abbas Beydoun, Bachir Hilal, Zena El Khalil, Mazen Maarouf, and Tarek Abi Samra, each story set in a distinct neighbourhood or location of the city. |
Beirut of Tomorrow: Planning for Reconstruction
Friedrich Ragette
Architecture and Urban Studies
American University of Beirut, 1983
Book on the Symposium organized by the A.U.B. and the Goethe Institute in collaboration with the Association of German Speaking University, held in Beirut from 17 to 21 january 1983; that focused on subjects such as: "The Historic Fabric of Beirut" and "A Post-Modern Approach to Reconstruction". |
Beirut Reborn : The Restoration and Development of the Central District
Angus Gavin Ramez Maluf (Contributor)
Architecture and Urban Studies
John Wiley & Son Ltd 1996
The history of Beirut, how the city developed and was later destroyed; the process of its reconstruction. |
Beirut's Heartbeat: Story of our City
Marwan Iskandar
History Analysis
M.I. Associates 2011
In this study of Beirut –“whose regular heartbeat pounds at well over 100”–, the author describes and assesses 60 years of achievements, despair, rejuvenation and search for stability. |
