L'Ecole de la Guerre
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
Balland 1999
After 7 years of absence, the narrator comes back to Beirut and remembers events of the war: tragic and comical ones, others atrocious and moving. |
L'Eglise de la Reconstruction: Identité, développement, coexistence
Antoine Messarra
Memory, Identity, Society
CEDROC (Centre d'Etudes, de Documentation et de Recherche sur l'Orient Chrétien) 1995
Reports of 5 seminaries organized by the CEDROC (Center for Studies, Documentation and Research on the Christian East) studying the following subjects: Value crisis and the role of the church; the church in Lebanon and the social issue; The relations between religions and communities in Lebanon. |
L'enfant adoptif et ses familles
Nazir Hamad
Memory, Identity, Society
ed. De Noël 2001
The author -a Lebanese psychoanalyst living in Paris- analyses the case of adopted children through considering that three participants should be taken into account: a man who desires to bring up a child with his wife, a woman who shares with him this desire, and a child who starts the process of mourning a first separation thanks to the desire of the adoptive parents. |
L'Enfant du Liban - Les Chemins de Nulle Part [The Roads to Nowhere, a Child of Lebanon]
Mansour Labaky
Novel
french ed. Fayard; english ed. St Bede's Publications; 1986, 1987
The story of a Lebanese child who became an orphan because of the war, his friendship with another boy and his path towards 'a life of love and forgiveness' |
L'Enfant et la Ville
Georges N. Rubeiz
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1996
Beirut, beautiful and carefree before the war; disfigured and petrified in its military uniform, after the war. |
L'Enfant Multiple
Andree Chedid
Novel
Librio 1999
The story of a child born in Lebanon, wounded the'absurd civil war' and by the death of his parents. And who will discover peace and hope through his friendship with thedifferent excentric characters of this book. |
L'Enfant, les Parents, et la Guerre. Une Etude Clinique du Liban
Myrna Gannageh
Memory, Identity, Society
Editions Sociales Françaises 1999
A clinical study on the effects of war on children. |
L'Etat Confessionnel. Le Cas Libanais
Mahdi Amil
Memory, Identity, Society
La Brèche, 1987 (arabic ed.), 1996 (french ed.)
Deconstruction of the various speeches on sectarian belonging which is, accordingly to the author, a way of exploiting the country by its 'bourgeoisie.' |
L'éxcisée [The Excised]
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
L'Harmattan (french); Three Continents Press (english) 1982, 1989
Through the story of an Arab Christian woman who elopes with a Muslim man, the author portrays the oppression Arab women today, and notably female circumcision. |
L'Homme Assis
Selim Nassib
Novel
Balland 1991
An account by the Lebanese journalist Selim Nassib: Fourteen stories that tell about the mentality and the customs in the Middle East and the repetitive conflicts devastating this region. |
L'Homme aux Paupières Closes
Louis el-Hage
Poetry
2000
These were written between 1982 and 1998, the darkest period of the poet's life. |
L'identité pluriculturelle libanaise
Bahjat Rizk
History Analysis
IDLivre, coll. Esquilles 2001
The dialogue between cultures appears today to be one of the essential conditions for the survival of our democracy and our freedom. |
L'Invasion Israélienne du Liban, 1982: Origines, Finalités et Effets Pervers
Ghassan el-Ezzi
History Analysis
L'Harmattan
An analysis of the israeli-arab conflict through an exhaustive investigation covering sociological concepts and international relations. |
L'Islam en Musique Classique
Roger Machaalani
On Art
1998
This book diplays information on the musical pieces inspired by Islam that were created by western cassical composers from Germany, England, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Norway, Poland and Russia. |
L'obus Siffla
Nadyne Khoury-Aoude (and other young writers)
Memoirs and Testimonies
Mercure de France 2001
The author recalls comical memories from her childhood during the Lebanese war. |
L'Occidentaliste
Hani Hammoud
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 1997
Revolt and disgust behind a feigned indifference. |
L'Ombre d'une Ville
Elie-Pierre Sabbag
Novel
Buchet Chastel 1994
After the Lebanese Civil War, Athanase, the narrator, revives the past and the memory of this conflict through telling his story with his circle of friends to a young Lebanese immigrant, the daughter of one of these friends who committed suicide. |
L'Ombre et son Double. Femmes Islamistes, Libanaises et Modernes
Dalal al-Bizri
Memory, Identity, Society
Cahiers du CERMOC, no 13 1995
The relation between Islam and modern life accordingly to the testimony of 10 Hezbollah activist Shi'ah women from Lebanon. |
L'Univers Romanesque de Rachid el-Daif et la Guerre du Liban
Edgar Weber
On Literature
L'Harmattan (coll. Critiques Littéraires) 2001
An analysis of the work of the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif who did not write about the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) in a direct way. But instead, wrote novels describing the hopes, the fears, the good and the bad times the Lebanese people experienced during this period. |
La bataille de l'eau au Proche Orient
Christian Chesnot
History Analysis
L’Harmattan (Comprendre le Moyen-Orient), 1993
The crucual issue of water in the Near-Easr relatively to the future of the region and the control of which by the States has become a highly strategic stake. |
La Belle Sunamite
Lutfallah Manasseh
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2003
The author tells the story of the beautiful Abishag who, after being close to King David, was coveted by his son Adonias who wanted to affirm his right to the throne by marrying the concubine of the deceased king… A hard task for the author considering the difficulty of overcoming the prejudgments often aroused by the Old Testament where unraveling myths and facts is so complicated. |
La Condition Libanaise: Communautés, citoyen, Etat
Nawaf Salam
Memory, Identity, Society
Dar An-Nahar 1998
A study on the connection between communities, citizens and the State in Lebanon highlighting the "distance" between the citizen and the State because of the multiple relations maintained between the Religious Communities and the Political System. |
La Construction Démocratique au Liban [Building Democracy in Lebanon] [Al Bina' Al Dimocraty]
Under Antoine Messarra
Memory, Identity, Society
Lebanese Foundation for permanent Civil Peace 1994
A compilation of texts on: peace and democracy; solidarity; the democratic political culture . . |
La Déchirure Libanaise
Nadine Picaudou
History Analysis
ed. Complexe 1989
The author, a historian who has lived several years in Lebanon, tells about this country 'hostage of its neighbouring countries', the 'Place of the Middle-East crisis': a analysis of the complicated logic and a demystification of the matter in order to understand 'because understanding is our prior responsibility towards Lebanon'. |
La dernière des Croisés
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
1st ed.: Maison Internationale du Livre, Beyrouth; 2nd ed.: Editions des Ecrivains, Paris 1997, 2002
The story of an expatriate Lebanese, her difficult life, her absurd existence and her wish for freedom, justice, reconstruction, participation, communication, and eternity. |
La dernière des croisés : Esclavagisme et Enfance
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
1998
The story of a 9 years' old little girl in the cruel city of Tripoli. |
La diaspora libanaise en France : processus migratoire et économie ethnique
Amir Abdulkarim
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan (coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient), 1996
The Lebanese diaspora in France was initially constituted at the beginning of the 20th century by commerce tradesmen and intellectuals. It became larger and more diverse starting 1975 -beginning of the Civil War-. France is today one of the most important centers of its worldwide economy. |
La Femme Chatte
Praline Gay-Para
Tales
L’Ecole des Loisirs (Neuf), 2000
Tales -from Lebanon- where women are crafty and beautiful, and kings are cruel. |
La Femme de mon mari
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
2001
A lively image of Lebanese life based on real historical facts that occurred in the city of Tripoli where a revolution and civil war were happening in 1958. |
La Fille de l’Ogre
Jihad Darwiche illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1993
Traditional Lebanese tale on jealousy and love: an amusing misunderstanding that makes an ogre believe he gave birth to a girl... |
La Folle Odyssée de Didon
Karine Safa
Tales
ed. du Béryl 2002
The story -in between History and Mythology- of Elissa -known by her Roman name, Didon (from Dido that means in Latin "wandering")- Princess of Tyr, Queen of Carthage; focusing on her life in Tyr and the persecution she suffered from her brother Pygmalion who envied her, which made her leave Tyr and go found the city of Carthage that would become later an empire... |
La Fracture
Elias Abou-Haidar
Memoirs and Testimonies
Eddif 1999
The story of the Lebanese war, and the story of the author's exile. How does one rebuild himself a life, where can one identify himself and find himself ? |
La France au Levant : des croisades à nos jours : Liban, Syrie, Palestine, Egypte, Israël
Pierre Dufour
History Analysis
Pygmalion 2001
The author sheds a light in the innumerable rivalries -Christianity and Islam, France and Spain, France and Great Britain, the Arab World and Israel- Lebanon was used as a stake for. |
La Francophonie et le Dialogue des Cultures
Zeina el-Tibi, Emile Lahoud (forw.), Bernard Landry (pref.)
Memory, Identity, Society
ed. L'Age d'Homme/Dar al-Moualef 2001
The French-speaking community; the French language as an international language; Inter-cultural education; The broadcasting of French language; Cooperation and solidarity among French-speaking groups. |
La génération de la relève: le conseil pédagogique ou la démocratie à l'école
Louise-Marie Chidiac, Abdo Kahi, Antoine Messarra
Memory, Identity, Society
Publications du Bureau Pédagogique des Saints-Coeurs 1995
About the structures of education in Lebanon based on innovation and dialogue to encourage the collective commitment in respecting subsidiary roles and competences. |
La guerre de mille ans
Jonathan C. Randal
History Analysis
Grasset 1984
The author, a reporter from the Washington post, watched a few of the main actors of the Lebanese tragedy and tried to understand their actions. |
La guerre du Liban
Antoine Jabre, Andre Fontaine, Nagib Dahdah
Memoirs and Testimonies
P. Belfond 1980
Antoine Jabre, ambassador of Lebanon in the USSR, tells about his Russian acquaintances and his own war in the USSR to 'save' his country. |
La Guerre du Liban : de la Dissension Nationale au Conflit Régional (1975-1982)
Samir Kassir
History Analysis
CERMOC 1994
How does Lebanon get at war? Who are the protagonists? How does violence happen again and again, in spite of the numerous stops to the conflicts? How do the Lebanese people live through this ordeal? |
La Guerre m'a surprise à Beyrouth
Carmen Boustani
Memoirs and Testimonies
Karthala 2010
The testimony of the author on her writing throughout the civil war in Lebanon. |
La Honte du Survivant<br>Le Ciel n'est Jamais l'Ennemi
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
ed. Naaman (2nd ed.) 1991
Two stories that testify about the war in lebanon: the first one is about the fiendship between a Lebanese combattant and a French journalist in a military camp; the second one tells the tragedy of a young university student whose life changed the day he was wounded by shrapnels. |
La Maison Beyrouthine aux Trois Arcs: Une Architecture Bourgeoise du Levant
Michael F. Davie (Directed by)
Architecture and Urban Studies
ALBA (Fine Arts Academy of Beirut)- Beirut, CNRS-URBAMA - Tours, France (Centre for Research and Studies on the Urbanization of the Arab World) 2003
This book is the result of ten years of research on the architectural and urban heritage of Beirut, of Lebanon and of the Levant. |
La Maison sans racines [The Return to Beirut]
Andree Chedid
Novel
french ed. Flammarion (Vieux Fonds); english ed. translated by Ros Schwartz, Serpents Tail; 1990, 1985
Lebanon -unhappily scarred by poverty, and hostility between Christian and Moslem factions- through 5 generations of a Lebanese family -those who emigrated and those who remained in their homeland- at three different times. |
La malédiction
Hyam Schoucair Yared
Novel
Ed. des Equateurs 2012
A novel about Lebanon and its situation, conflicts, and religions, tells the story of young Hala, her childhood, bulimia, anorexia, suspicious friendship, self-effacement, and her struggle against her strict mother and strict male society. |
La Mallette
Ezza Agha Malak
Novel
Jarrous Tripoli 1996
The life of post-war human society. |
La Méditerranée; Espace de Conflits, Espace de Rêve
Georges Corm
History Analysis
L'Harmattan 2001
A selection of articles covering the period between 1993 and 2000, on the Mediterranean and the Middle-East conflicts. |
La Mémoire des Cèdres
Jacqueline Massabki, François Porel
Novel
Robert Laffont 1989
The Lebanese Civil War that ravaged the country but also divided members of a same family. |
La Mue
Georges Corm
Novel
ed. No‘l Blandin 1992
The story of a country deceived, betrayed, cut up, by stronger countries, but with the enthusiastic complicity of its own countrymen, blinded by their passions, greedy for violence, searching for their salvation through the craziest self-destruction and unable to understand their collective suicide. |
La Paix et la Crise : Le Liban reconstruit ?
Franck Debie, Danuta Pieter, Eric Verdeil
Memory, Identity, Society
Presses Universitaires de France - PUF; 2003
This book explores the paradoxes of the reconstruction of Lebanon after 15 years of Civil War, through an analysis of : the Lebanese Model; the War System; Getting out of the War; Getting out of the Economy Crisis; Restructuring the Private Sector; Rebuilding Beirut; The Lebaneses New Territory. |
La Passion des chrétiens du Liban
Dominique Baudis
History Analysis
France-Empire 1979
The deep roots of the Lebanese Civil War: in a distant past the traces of which are still in the collective consciousness of the people. The author relates the 1860 crisis, 1914-1918, 1943's burst; all in order to better understand the Civil War. |
La Pierre du Rire [Hajar al-Dahik - The Stone of Laughter]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
french ed. Actes Sud; arabic ed. Riad el-Rayyess; english ed. translated by Sophie Bennett, interlinks books;
The suffering brought by the Lebanese war shows through the behaviors of the characters of this novel. |
