I Remember Beirut
Zeina Abirached
Memoirs and Testimonies
Graphic Universe 2014
The author’s childhood and adolescence memories in war-torn Beirut, until she left Lebanon in 2006, are marked with constant fear and hard life, but also with happy moments that helped to forget the raging war. |
I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops [Aknus Al-Shams Aan Al-Sutuh]
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
english ed. translated by Catherine Cobham, Doubleday; arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; 1998, 1994
Collection of short stories detailing the complexities of contemporary Arab life. Tenuously poised between the cultures of the East and the West. |
I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Rabih Alameddine
Novel
W.W. Norton & Company 2001
The story of Sarah, daughter of a Lebanese man and an American woman and her struggles since her parents divorced, and throughout her love life. And her life as a well known painter. |
Identité et Démocratie dans un Monde Global
Rene Otayek
Memory, Identity, Society
Presses de Sciences Po 2000
From Rwanda to Chechnya, passing through former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Algeria or the Basque Country, all are examples of conflicts revealing identity « passions ». René Otayek shows that contradiction between universalistic dynamic that is inherent to mundialization and the resurgence of particularisms is only a facade. |
Images Ecrites
Nada Moghaizel Nasr
Novel
FMA 1994
Images written on childhood, mothers, people ... in Lebanon. |
Images of Arab Women: Fact and Fiction
Mona Mikhail
On Literature
Washington Three Continents Press 1979
Essays around the subject of the way female characters are represented in Arabic literature. |
Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity & Culture in the Middle East
Edited by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb
Memory, Identity, Society
Saqi Books 2000
In the Middle East, stereotypical male identities are constructed, reproduced and contested. |
Immortalis
Elias Jabre
Novel
Ed. du Masque 2004
Science Fiction novel telling the story of a modern alchemist, a genetics expert who found the formula for man to be eternal… The anguish of death will be replaced by absolute perplexity, but most will sign for such a life-contract… |
Improvisations on a Missing String
Nazik Saba Yared translated by Stuart A. Hancox
Novel
The University of Arkansas Press 1997
A novel about an independent woman through her childhood in Palestine, her studies in Cairo, and finally as a teacher in Beirut; who struggles against traditional expectations to fulfill her own aspirations for belonging. |
In the Middle of Nowhere
Ibrahim Yared
Novel
Saqi Books 2001
A novel depicting the struggle to belong of immigrants who left their country because of the civil war. |
Innana mahkoomoon bi-al-amal: kitabat fee al-masrah
Eyad, Elias Houssami, Khoury (Editors)
On Art / On Literature
Dar al-Adab 2013
A collection of essays including academic discussions, personal narratives, and specially commissioned portraits of contemporary Arab theatre artists, by writers and artists from Lebanon, among other Arab countries, tracing the history of contemporary Arab theatre and its relationship to social change. |
Innovation Educative: au Liban et dans le Monde
Celine Ghaouche
Memory, Identity, Society
Bureau des Services Universitaires 1994
An explanation of the real aim of authentic education which is to give and encourage opportunies to create and innovate throughout an active and collectice school education. |
Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky
Assaf, Jennifer, Carol Khoury, Loewenstein, Chomsky (photographer)
History Analysis
Monthly Review Press 2007
This book –including essays and photographs– describes Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, and analyses the social-political conditions in Lebanon, Gaza, and the refugee camps, detailing Israel’s as well as Hizbullah’s and Hamas’ position and role in this conflict, and chronicling the war linking it the global order. |
INSY AL-SIYYARA
Rashid Al-Daif
Novel
Riad el-Rayyes books 2002
The story of a 35 years’ old man whose father decides to marry again after he is widowed. His attempts to stop this wedding with the help of his girlfriend. A novel told on a backgroung of regretting the period of the Lebanese Civil War when people could get rich easily and fast. Also describing the relationship between the Lebanese –those living in Lebanon and those living in the USA- with the Americans. |
Internationale de l'imaginaire, nouvelle série. 205, Le Liban second
introduction by Cherif Khaznadar, Jean Duvignaud
Memory, Identity, Society
Maison des cultures du monde, Actes Sud 1996
Lebanese intellectuals, writers and artists, who have survived the Lebanese Civil War, talk about the future of culture in their country; as destructive as they have been, these years of war have, with no doubt, allowed to reveal what was illusory in the so-called 'Lebanese miracle'. |
Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Therese Saliba
On Literature
Syracuse University Press 2002
"A collection of ten essays presenting critical analysis of women Arab writers. Themes of feminism, gender roles, the relationship of these to the political and social realities of the Arab countries, and their methods of presentation are analyzed." |
Introduction à l'Histoire Politique du Liban Moderne (du 17e. siècle à 1943)
Fouad L. Boustany
History Analysis
FMA 1993
A study on the relation of the events in Lebanon and their interpretation: the history of this country from the 17th. Century until 1943 in order to comprehend the conflicts that tore it during the 16 years of civil war. |
Inventing Home : Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920
Akram Fouad Khater
Memory, Identity, Society
University of California Press 2001
An analysis of the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity through a description of the journeys of villagers from Mount Lebanon between 1890 and 1920 'from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making'. |
Inventing Lebanon
Kais Firro
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002
The author, a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa, shows how the influence of the French Mandate in Lebanon "accentuated the divisions already inherent in this multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, paving the way for the instability and wars that have plagued the country ever since". |
Ismahu al-gharam (It's Called Love)
Alawiyya Sobh
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2009
This novel consists of a sensitive and sensuous story of a middle-aged woman assessing her love life, and follows characters whose lives illustrate the struggles of war and invasion experienced by the Lebanese people. |
Israël au Liban: la fin de trente ans d'occupation ?
Mahmoud Soueid translated by Elias Sanbar
History Analysis
ed. de la Revue d'Etudes Palestiniennes, Beyrouth Minuit 2000
An explanation on the situation of South-Lebanon territories, occupied by Israel for 30 years: the occupation, the 'Islamic', Palestinian and Lebanese resistance. Syria's, Israel's and Lebanon's attitude. Study of the 425 resolution. |
I‘tidal al-khareef
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 1995
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. |
Jardinier de ma Mémoire
Nadia Tueni
Poetry
Flammarion 1998
The author, 'bruised History and serious personal scars', has faced reality, through her poems and in real life. |
Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Salma Abdelnour
Novel
Broadway Books 2012
Having fled from Beirut in the 1980s, 9 year’ old Salma Abdelnour and her family start a new life in the States. Yet, still considering Lebanon as her home, she finally goes back and has to deal with the new realities of life in vibrant and troubled Beirut. |
June Rain
Jabbour Douaihy
Novel
Bloomsbury USA 2015
In 1957, after a shoot-out, a village in North Lebanon is divided in two, yet the closely intertwined lives of its inhabitants can’t be easily divided as neighbours become enemies and husbands and wives must choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. |
Ka-annaha na’ima
Elias Khoury
Novel
Dar al-Adab 2007
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. |
Kadiyyat Lubnan al-Wataniyyat wal-Dimukratiyyat
Fawwaz Traboulsi
History Analysis
Dar al-Taliaat 1978
A book written in memory of Kamal Joumblat and dedicated to the Lebanese National Movement, regrouping articles published in "Al-Hourriyyat" magazine from 1973 to 1976, on the principal events related to the Lebanese Civil War, telling about it from the Lebanese National Movement's point of view. |
Kalimat, Kalimat, Kalimat
Ounsi el-Hage
Poetry
Dar An-Nahar 1987
Cultural, artistic and political Lebanon. Important people and events. |
Karizma (Charisma)
Hala Kawtharani
Novel
Dar al-Saqi 2013
The story of three women from different eras whose lives have in common hope and pain. |
Kawabis Bayrut [Beirut Nightmares]
Ghada Samman
Novel
arabic ed. Dar al-Taliaat; english ed. translated by Nancy N. Roberts, Quartet Books; 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. |
Khalil Haoui: philosophie de la poésie et de la civilisation
Rita Awad
On Literature
Dar An-Nahar 2002
A book on the poetry of Khalil Haoui where the author reveals an unknown facet of the poet through deciphering his texts and restituting his inspiration. |
Khamsin
Jocelyne J. Awad
Memoirs and Testimonies
Albin Michel 1994
A true story about the sad destiny of an Arab woman in Lebanon. |
Khatt Al Fazaa
Idriss Bilmalih
Novel
World Book Publishing 1998
The Lebanese post-war society. |
Khawaja
Mohammed Taan
Novel
L'Harmattan (Ecritures Arabes) 2002
During the 1980s in Lebanon when inter-sectarian conflict reached its peak; in a Beirut shelter, the Khawaja, a strange old man who is attempting everything to get his home back, tells a doctor he met and developed friendship towards the sacred task destiny entrusted him with and that war is threatening. |
Khiam
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2000
A tribute to those who survided the hell of the Israeli sinister prison located in Lebanon. |
Khitab al-hawiyya: seera fikriyya (The Identity Speech: a philosophical issue)
Ali Harb
Memory, Identity, Society
Dar al-Kunooz al-Adabiyya 1996
Lebanese identity or identities… |
Khoubzouna l'Yawmi
Emily Nasrallah
Novel
Naufal Group 1990
A poignant image of man's suffering during the war. |
Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assasination of Rafik Hariri and its Impact on the Middle East
Nicholas Blanford
History Analysis
B. Tauris 2006
Based on exclusive interviews with key sources, the author retraces the last days of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri killed on Valentine's Day 2005, analyses his past, and assess the impact of his death on Lebanese politics. |
Kitab al-hala (The Book of the Current State)
Antoine al-Duwaihi
Novel
Dar al-Nahar 1993
The author creates a new style combining poetry and prose inducing vision, dreams, and meditation. |
KITAR AL-NADA; MIN AHLAM AL-HOURRIYAT ILA MANAZIL AL-THULL
Imad Al-Abdallah
Memoirs and Testimonies
Riad el-Rayyes books 2001
Short stories written by Imad Al-Abdallah from his memories of Lebanon throughout the years of the civil war and after. |
Kite
Dominique Edde
Novel
Seagull Books 2012
This story, at once a memoir and a fiction, set in the period from 1960s to the late 1980s, chronicles the decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society through the stories of different characters faced with social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichés. |
Koolaids: The Art of War
Rabih Alameddine
Novel
Picador Press 1998
Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family. |
L'Amour loup
Anouar Benmalek
Novel
Pauvert 2002
The tragic love story, in Lebanon during the israeli/palestinian conflict in the eighties, between a Algerian future engineer and a Palestian Medical student. |
L'amour pur hyperbolique en mystique musulmane
Jad Hatem
Poetry
Ed. du Cygne 2009
Pure love in its almost sacrificial aspect depicted in Jad Hatem's poetry dedicated to muslim mysticism that the author compares to jewish and chrisitan mysticism. |
L'an prochain à Tibériade: lettres d'une jeune Palestinienne du Liban à un ami français
Racha Salah
Memoirs and Testimonies
Albin Michel 1996
Ten long letters in which Racha, a young Palestinian, relates her daily life in Lebanon, throughout the war. |
L'Apocalypse Arabe [The Arab Apocalypse]
Etel Adnan
Poetry
french ed. Editions Papyrus; english ed. The Post Apollo Press; 1980, 1989
Deconstructed poetry reflecting destruction: the dislocations and outcries of the Arab World. |
L'armoire des ombres
Hyam Yared
Novel
Sabine Wespieser 2006
Through the story of an actress who discovers folded shadows in a closet in a theatre in Beirut, and uses them as different characters in plays she presents to an ever-growing audience until she is lost within all her different identities, the author portrays the Lebanese society where individuals have no place, women in particular… and where any attempt towards emancipation is very dearly paid. |
L'armoire des ombres
Hyam Schoucair Yared
Novel
Ed. Sabine Wespieser 2006
This novel portraying a country that has fallen prey to war and religious conservatism tells the story of a person who assumes the role of two Lebanese women on a theatre stage, thus leading to an increasingly blurred boundary between reality and fiction. |
L'Autre
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Fiction Française) 1992 (1st ed. 1969)
This novel tells about the fight against death through the story of a man who struggles to save an other man. The complicity between an old oriental man with a heart like a child's, and a young westerner as blasé as an old man illustrating a dialogue between two different civilizations. |
L'Avenir Socio-Economique du Liban en Questions: éléments de réponse
Nicolas E. Chammas
Memory, Identity, Society
Harvard Business School, Club of Lebanon 1995
A study on the reasons to fear but also to have hope for the future of Lebanon where the Lebanese people, as a collectivity, should work together for the socio-economical revival of their country. |
