Effets du Féminin: Variations Narratives Francophones
Carmen Boustani (directed by)
On Literature
Karthala (coll. Lettres du Sud) 2004
Carmen boustani studies the verbal and non-verbal expression, making a critical gaming out of the "feminine". |
Elle dit
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Poetry
Balland; (Littérature Française), 1999
Lively fresh oriental images and fables combining naïveté and wisdom.. |
Envolées d'une âme
Alain Tasso
Poetry
Les Blés d'or 1998
Alain Tasso's poems accompanied by his painted calligraphy. |
Equinoxe d’automne
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
AMAM 2000
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. |
Eternité Volante
Ounsi el-Hage
Poetry
Actes Sud/Sindbad 1999
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Étoiles d'araignée
Ritta Baddoura
Poetry
Mokhtarat 2000
A poetry collection of very intense short texts full of thoughts, feelings, resentment, sensuality, violence, disgust, despair, tenderness, and passion depicting a bursted life. |
Etude sur la Poésie Libanaise Francophone
Zahida Darwiche-Jabbour
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 1997
About Lebanese poetry written in french. |
Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions
William W. Harris
History Analysis
Wiener Pub. 2001
The country's geography, sects, and politics; an overview of Lebanon's political history from 1920 to 1989; and an analysis of the country's recent past. |
Fatin
Fatima Sharafeddine
Novel
Kalimat 2010
Sent away from her village by her father to work as a maid for a wealthy family in the city, 17 year’s old Faten falls in love with rich Marwan, and they both must face the Lebanese society’s restrictions concerning the differences in religion, class, and wealth. |
Femmes de sable et de myrrhe
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
Actes-Sud 1993
The author relates the hard life of four women in an unnamed desert state. |
Femmes du crépuscule [Femmes du crépuscule / Women of the Twilight]
Evelyne Accad
Memoirs and Testimonies
L'Harmattan (french); Alfabarre (bilingual french/english) 2008, 2011
The struggles and pain of women around the world, including in Indiana-USA, Francfort-Germany, Beirut-Lebanon, and Paris-France, facing the Palestinian, christian, muslim, jewish realities; moral prejudice, refugee camps, physical and moral misery, social and political oppression, violence, the daily life in cities in a state of war… |
Femmes du Liban
Gerard Figuie and Rita Saba-Sayegh
Memory, Identity, Society
Anthologie 1997
The status of women in lebanon, the differences whether they're Christian or Muslim. And in which ways 20 years of war affected them. |
For Brian's sake: the story of the Keenan sisters
Anne Maguire
Memoirs and Testimonies
Blackstaff Press 1991 (1st ed.)
A record of the achievement of the two sisters of Brian Keenan who was taken hostage in Beirut in 1986, in having their brother released after four and a half years. |
Form and Content in Art: A Marxist Approach to the Debate from Hegel to Gombrich.
Mahmoud Chreih
On Art
Dar Nelson publ. 2011
A study tracing the varying relations between form and content in aesthetics, elaborating on the psychology of art and criticisms. |
From Israel to Damascus
Robert Hatem
Memoirs and Testimonies
Pride International Publications Inc. 1999
The author of this book known as Cobra, now a political refugee in France, brakes 'the code of silence about the unacceptable, the world of tragedy, corruption, crime and darkness under which Lebanon exists today' through the story of Elie Hobeika -whose bodyguard he used to be- and his rise to power in the Lebanese government. |
Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry
Andree Chedid translated by Lynne Goodhart and Jon Wagner
Poetry
Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 1999
The poems of this volume are selected from Andree Chedid's entire career (1949 to 1995) who describes her poetry as being "free of time and place," having no "geographical boundaries," and belonging to "all lands." |
Fushat Mustahdafa bayn al-Na'as wal-Nawm [Passage to Dusk - Passage au Crépuscule]
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
arabic ed. Dar Mokhtarat; english ed. University of Texas Press; french ed. Actes Sud; 1986, 2001, 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. |
Georges Daoud Corm. Peintre et Portraitiste Libanais.1896-1971
Georges G. Corm, Ch. Helou, M. Zahar, E. Adnan, G. Dornand, E. Schaub-Koch, G. D, Corm
On Art
Georges G. Corm 1981
A book on Georges Daoud Corm's work as a painter; Texts accompanied by pictures of his paintings. |
Ghaflat al-Tourab
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Dar Moukhtarat 1991
Foreign countries want to send us boats to 'save' us out of Lebanon. Are we invaders in our own country? |
Ghareeqat buhayrat Moreh (Drowning in Lake Morez)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Arab Scientific Publ. 2014
A Lebanese man and a French woman struggle to make their relationship work, despite the culture and the space separating them, in a novel showing how people, today, are often caught between different worlds. |
Ghina’ al-bitreeq
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2003
This classic novel of the Lebanese civil war focuses on the trap of poverty, relating the story of a handicapped young man who erases the limits between what is normal and what is not. |
Groceryman: The Hamadys of Flint Michigan and the American Dream
Robert Lee Hamady
Memoirs and Testimonies
Planigale Press 2013
The story of the Hamady Druze family who left Lebanon in 1908 and built a family business in America, told by the patriarch’s grandson. |
Guerres Civiles: Economies de la Violence, Dimensions de la Civilité
Jean Hannoyer
Memory, Identity, Society
CERMOC 1999
A study on violence in societies constituted of different communities, and the role of forgetfulness in the process of reconciliation; through an analysis of the degree of interiorization of violence by the citizens who are its perpetrators and victims, the issue of sectarian belongings, and the process of reconciliation in these societies which are deeply torn by inner and internal violence. |
Guerres secrètes au Liban
Annie Laurent, Antoine Basbous
History Analysis
Gallimard 1987
A book about the regional and international actors behind the Middle-East crisis. |
Guide des Centres de Recherche en Sciences Sociales au Liban
Cahiers du CERMOC, No 11
Memory, Identity, Society
147 pages in arabic, 17 pages in french 1995
List of the most important works done by students. |
Haddithni ‘an al-Khiam
Fatin al-Murr
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2013
The joys, pains, disappointments and martyrs of a family living in the town of Khiam in South Lebanon, from the 1978 massacre to the liberation in 2000. |
Hadeeqat al-fajr (The Garden of Dawn)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 1999
Texts mirroring the author’s feelings in relation to reactions, thoughts and ideas on time, the body, women, cities, love…. |
Hajar al-Dahik [The Stone of Laughter - La Pierre du Rire]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
arabic ed. Riad el-Rayyess; english ed. translated by Sophie Bennett, interlinks books; french ed. Actes Sud;
The suffering brought by the Lebanese war shows through the behaviors of the characters of this novel. |
Hakawati
Rabih Alameddine
Tales
Flammarion 2009
In 2003, back in Beirut after several years in America, Osama tells about the stories of his grandfather the hakawati –storyteller– on his arrival in Lebanon coming from Turkey, and his classic tales of the Middle East, all illustrating an endless war. |
Hamil al-warda al-urjuwaniyya (The Bearer of the Purple Rose)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Arab Scientific Publ. 2013
A writer is arrested and imprisoned in “The Citadel of the Port” upon his return from a long exile in the West… and starts meditating on memories from his exile; love; his mother; the destruction of nature; history’s tragedy; strange fate, time and death. |
Haqa’ib al-dhakira (Suitcases of Memory)
Sharbel Qatan
Novel
Nawfal publ 2011
A novel built around five suitcases abandoned at the Beirut airport, each telling a story related to an aspect of contemporary Lebanon, and bags whose owners are unknown… Until Ehab, who lost his father at the beginning of the civil war arrives at the customs department… |
Harith al Miyah [Le Laboureur des Eaux]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
arabic ed. Dar An-Nahar; french ed. Actes Sud; 1998, 1999
Sensual and strong epic in the ruins of a memory-city. Through the journey of Nicolas, the principal character of this novel, the reader scrapes off the dust and rediscovers the city from before the nothingness. |
Hassan le Brave
Praline Gay-Para illustrations by Chen Jiang Hong
Tales
Ecole des loisirs (Mouche) 2002
The adventures of Hassan trying to get the ogre's braid in order to obtain half of the King's kingdom as a reward as well as his daughter's hand. |
Hayat Qaseera (A Short Life)
Renée Hayek
Novel
Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi 2011
The author gives an account of life during the civil war in Lebanon, describing the difficulties of daily life and the dangers of travelling across the country, portraying the impact of war on social life, realtionships with family or friends, those who stayed in Lebanon and those who went to live abroad. |
Hayawat ukhra
Iman Humaydan Younes
Novel
Dar al-Rawi 2011
This novel shows the impact of war and violence on those who live them, and on the meaning of life itself, especially for women. |
HAYY Al-LIJA
Balkis Al-Houmani
Novel
Al-Sharikat Al-Aalamiyat Lil Kitab, 1996
A novel detailing the life of refugees from the South in Beirut. |
Hezbollah: A Short History
Augustus Richard Norton
History Analysis
Princeton Univ. Press 2007
A history of Hezbollah’s creation, evolution, and its possible future direction. |
Hikayat Zahrah [The Story of Zahra]
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; english ed. translated by Peter Ford, Doubleday; 1990, 1996
Novel, illuminating the personal human tragedy of war and madness. |
Hikayati sharh yatul
Hanan el-Sheikh
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar al-Adab 2004
In this memoir, the author relates the extraordinary life of her mother. |
Histoire de Beyrouth
Samir Kassir
History Analysis
Fayard 2003
Set between East and West, Beirut has attracted invaders: Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelouks and Ottomans; and it was only starting the 20th Century that the expansion of the silk industry triggered the commercial ascent of Beirut, which also set itself as one of the centers of the Arab Cultural Renaissance. Throughout the 20th Century, Beirut enhanced its financial role in the region. In 1975, the war divided the Lebanese capital in two. And starting 1990, it is rebuilding itself, almost as quickly as it had been destroyed. |
Histoire de la grande maison
Charif Majdalani
Novel
Seuil 2005
This novel, set in Lebanon from the Ottoman empire up to the French mandate, tells the story of a man who, after fleeing his native village in late 19th century Lebanon, creates an empire close to Beirut until, as a consequence of WW1, illness, and the pranks of one of his sons, his empire collapses and his descendants gradually leave Lebanon. |
Histoire de la Guerre du Liban
Jean Sarkis
History Analysis
PUF, 2000, 1st ed. 1993
Through a theoretical and chronological analysis, the author tries to demonstrate the failure of projects, plans and initiatives and attempts for the country and its capacity to resist. |
Histoire du Liban : du XVIIe à nos jours
Kamal Salibi
History Analysis
Naufal 1988
The creation of Lebanon's republic, Mount Lebanon and the Emirs, and the 'big mistakes' that have matured with time and ended up in a Civil War. |
Histoire du Liban contemporain, tome 1 : 1860-1943
Denise Ammoun
History Analysis
Fayard 1997
A long introduction on Lebanon in the past, followed by the modern period starting the 19th. century which is the long path towards independence. |
Historical Dictionary of Lebanon
Asad Abukhalil
History Analysis
Scarecrow Press Inc. 1998
The author, a political science teacher, describes -in this dictionary that does not include women- the Lebanese society and culture through accounts concerning political leaders, poets, artists, actors, writers, musicians, singers, important events and places, political parties, militia groups, foreign interests, and military elements; showing their complexities as the result of a unique political system and a richly diverse population and making clear the balances of power that propelled Lebanon into civil war and dragged it back toward peace again. |
History of the Arab Peoples
Albert Hourani
History Analysis
Belknap Press 2002 (updated - 1st ed. 1991)
A panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. This new edition includes such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001.The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq, and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians. |
Hizbu'Llah: Politics and Religion
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
History Analysis
Pluto Press 2001
An analysis of democracy, notably of the electoral systems as well as of the structures of parliamentary democracies. |
Hizbullah: al-siyasa w-al-deen
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
History Analysis
Al-Jazeera 2002
An analysis of democracy, notably of the electoral systems as well as of the structures of parliamentary democracies. |
Homesick
Tony Hanania
Novel
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1998
This novel tell about a boy's struggle to adapt to the new realities of a British boarding school after a sheltered Beirut childhood, and discovering a similar pattern of violence in both. |
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Anthony Shadid
Memoirs and Testimonies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
This war correspondent restores his spirit by rebuilding his home and relating his family’s flight from Lebanon to America, while describing war and exile, and yearning for home. |
