La poésie Libanaise de langue Francaise
Ghaleb Ghanem translated by J.-P. Fattal
On Literature
Pub. De l'universite Libanaise 1981
On Frida Bagdadi, Tamar, Julien Harb. |
La Porte du soleil [Bab al-Shams]
Elias Khoury translated by Rania Samara
Novel
french ed. Actes Sud; arabic ed. Dar al-Adab; 2002, 1998
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. |
La Princesse Déguisée
Jihad Darwiche illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1994
Traditional Lebanese tale: a princess is the victim of schemers; events will lead her to disappear and change her identity. |
La Promise
Nohad Salameh
Novel
L'Harmattan 1999
The memory of yesteryear's Lebanon, now devastated by the war. |
La société Libanaise durant la guerre et par après
Lena Freiha
Memory, Identity, Society
Librairie Antoine 1998
A satyre of social life in Lebanon during and after the war focusing on the modern Lebanese woman. It is also a study on society based on events that have happened, told in a comical but also tragic way that both accompany the social disturbances generated by war. |
La souris et le voleur
Jihad Darwiche Christian Voltz (Illustrations)
Tales
Didier Jeunesse (A Petits Petons) 2002
(5 years and up)
A traditional Lebanese tale telling the comical story of a crafty little mouse whose piece of meat was stolen by a gigantic ogre and who goes to the judge and starts enumerating all the traps she could lay. To catch the thief. |
La Vision
Jean Salme
Novel
Ed. Jean Salme 2003
This novel that takes place in Beirut is about the eternal love of a man for a woman he never ended up marrying because of particular circumstances. |
La voix des arbres
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Poetry
Le Cherche-midi Editeur, (Points Fixes); 2001
The author helps young readers discover nature : trees, birds, rivers, gardens, leaves, seasons. |
Lady Virus
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
Balland 2002
An espionage thriller dealing with terrorism: After letters containing anthrax contaminated people all over the U.S.A., Meg, a renowned microbiologist hired by the CIA, conducts an investigation taking her from New York to Amman to Amsterdam to Beirut, on the trail of "Lady Virus", the woman responsible for the Iraqi bacterial program. |
Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon
Franck Salameh
Memory, Identity, Society
Lexington Books 2010
A study on how the West’s impulse to amalgamate national identity with language, state, and ethnicity and to mix up Arabic language with Arab ethnicity has played a major role in leading to a misunderstanding of the region. |
Le Berceau du monde : Orient - Opéra
Fady Stephan
Novel
Verticales (Littérature française) 2003
The author, an Archeology and East-Semitic languages teacher, leads the reader through a lyrical and poetic journey in Lebanon describing it as a land of mythical legends as well as a land that welcomed people of all religions, of different beliefs and philosophical sects and where people hoped unity and reconciliation were possible. |
Le bonheur à la queue glissante
Abla Farhoud
Novel
L'Hexagone 1998
The story of an illiterate Lebanese immigrant and of her solitude; who gradually lets the reader inside her memory. |
Le Bonheur Bleu
Lamia el-Saad
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar An-Nahar 2002
"Le bonheur Bleu" relates the author's suffering; she was wounded by a shrapnel at the age of 11; her life became then a daily struggle against physical pain and despair. |
Le bus des gens biens
Najwa Barakat
Novel
Stock (coll. La Cosmopolite) 2002
In the deserted square of a city in the North of the Arabic peninsula, an old bus with a dozen strange passengers, a strange driver, starts a journey in the miidle of the night which encourages telling secrets . . and lies. |
Le cafard
Rawi Hage
Novel
Éditions Denoël 2010
On a cold winter day in Montreal, an immigrant thief is rescued from committing suicide and has to attend therapy sessions, leading us back to his violent childhood in a war-torn country, then into his current immigrant life-on-the-edge, where he sees himself as a cockroach invading the lives of others. |
Le Cèdre Pleureur
Jack Aswad
Poetry
An-Nahar cultural supplement, 1996
The author wrote this poem while under the shock of the 1996 shelling of South-Lebanon by the Israeli; learning about it through news on television showing the images of Qana. |
Le chant du pingouin
Hassan Daoud
Novel
Actes-Sud 2007
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. |
Le chant suspendu
Elham Chamoun Abdelnour
Novel
Dar Malaffat 2009
A love story set in the Lebanese mountains. |
Le cimetière des rêves
Hanan el-Sheikh
Novel
Actes Sud (Babel) 2002
Stories about Arab women, whether they are Moroccan or Lebanese or Yemenite, who affirm their independence. |
Le Cinéma Libanais: Itinéraire d'un Cinéma Vers l'Inconnu (1929-1996)
Hadi Zaccak
On Art
Dar el-Maschrek 1997
A History of Lebanese cinema since its beginnings end of the 1920s until 1997; through the works of Lebanese film-makers (Ali Ariss, Samir Khoury, Samir Ghosseini, Jean-Claude Codsi, Leyla Assaf, Georges Nasser, Mohamed Selmane, Maroun Baghdadi, Borhane Alaouié, Jocelyne Saab, Jean Chamoun, Randa Chahal. |
Le coffre des secrets
Elias Khoury
Novel
Actes-Sud 2009
The narrator tells the stories of two men and one woman, their crossing destinies, in Lebanon and in Columbia, in between the 1860 civil war and the 1975 civil war. |
Le conflit intraétatique au Liban, Problèmes de maintien de la paix
Katia Boustany
History Analysis
Bruylant (Organisation internationale et Relations internationales) 1994
This work analyses the specific consequences and problems created by intra-state conflicts in all regions where even the UN can't find a solution to maintain the peace; specifically in Lebanon. |
Le Conflit libanais: Communautés Religieuses, Classes Sociales et Identité Nationale
Kamal Hamdane
Memory, Identity, Society
UNRISD, Garnet Publishing, Reading 1997
The complex connection between the community, social and national levels throughout the terrible violence Lebanon suffered between 1975 and 1990. |
Le Conte Oriental - La Tradition Orale au Liban
Jihad Darwiche
Tales
Edisud 2001
Tales told throughout the year in Lebanon where many civilizations inter-crossed. |
Le couvent de la Lune ou Deir el-Kamar à travers le temps
Carole Dagher
Novel
Plon 2002
A flash-back on 19th century Lebanon, under Béchir II Chéhab - a period rich with events, intrigues, military prouesses, and friendship and loyalty-, through this historical and sentimental novel. |
Le Désordre Libanais
Joseph Khoury
History Analysis
L'Harmattan 1998
Lebanon's history of wars since Amioun's fightings in 695 until the recent Syrian conquest. |
Le droit à la mémoire
Antoine Saad, Antoine N. Messarra, Antoine Laham
Memory, Identity, Society
Fondation Libanaise pour la Paix Civile Permanente, Librairie Orientale 1988
The acts of the first international seminar organized by the 'Fondation Libanaise pour la Paix Civile Permanente' (the Lebanese Foundation for Permanent Civil Peace) from July 8th to 12th 1987 around the theme 'Cost of internal conflicts and construction of collective memory in Lebanon': comparative study of internal conflicts; construction of collective memory; cost of internal conflicts in Lebanon; Prospects for the future. |
Le Droit de l'Urbanisme, de la Construction, de l'Environnement et de l'Eau
Hyam Mallat
Architecture and Urban Studies
LGDJ-Bruylant-Delta 1997
A study of urban, construction, environment, telecommunication and water resources legislations which have all evolved in modern societies except for the Middle-East where the rights related to the water issue have a political, economic and social value. |
Le feu et la cendre: travail de deuil et rites funéraires dans un village Libanais
Nagib Khouri
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan 1996
The author, a psychologist, explains the funerary rituals in a village in Lebanon, and their role in the mourning process; analyzing the passionate bond of the maronite community with their land. |
Le fleuve - du seul fait d'exister
Venus Khoury-Ghata, Paul Chanel-Malenfant
Poetry
Trait d’Union 2001
Poetry that leads the reader through the beauty of nature. |
Le français du Liban
Nicole Gueunier
Memory, Identity, Society
Institut d'études créoles et francophones, 1993
100 linguistic profiles relatively to the French language spoken in Lebanon. |
Le Grand Jeu: Orient arabe et rivalités internationales depuis 1945
Henry Laurens
History Analysis
Armand Colin 1991
The evolution of the political regimes of Arab countries since 1945; international relations and the numerous conflicts in this region since 1945. |
Le Laboureur des Eaux [Harith al Miyah]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
french ed. Actes Sud; arabic ed. Dar An-Nahar; 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. |
Le Liban
Jean-Pierre Alem, Patrick Bourrat
History Analysis
PUF (Que sais-je ?) 2000
The history, the geographical and political situation of Lebanon with an analysis of the period covering the Civil War and the reconstruction. |
Le Liban Aujourd'hui
Dir. by Fadia Kiwan; with Fadia Kiwan,Ahmad Beydoun,Farid El-Khazen,Issam Sleiman,Antoine Messara,Dalal El-Bizri,Ghassan Slaiby,Nawaf Salam,Adnan El-Amine,Fadi Osseiran,Najib Issa,Kamal Hamdan,Boutros Labaki,Robert Kasparian,Aïda Boudjikanian,Nabil Beyhum
Memory, Identity, Society
CERMOC-CNRS 1994
Two years after the end of the war negotiated in taef in 1989: How to reconcile the country with itself and define its relation with its regional and international environment. Freedom, reconstruction, Lebanese identity, social issues and issues relative to the country's economy. |
Le Liban d'où je viens
Henri Edde
Memoirs and Testimonies
Buchet Chastel (Documents) 2000
The author, an architect and a town planner, tells about his country occupied by Syria and Israel, about the reconstruction of Beirut and the huge amounts of money it is costing. |
Le Liban entre la Guerre et l'Oubli
Paul Blanc
Memory, Identity, Society
L'Harmattan, Coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient 2000, (1st ed. 1992)
A plea for the unity of Lebanon. |
Le Liban, Guerre Civile ou Conflit International? : à partir du milieu du XIXe siècle
Daad Bou Malhab Atallah
History Analysis
Imprimerie al-Hurriyat 1980
A study of the people's revolts in Mount Lebanon under Ottoman authority, 1840 et 1860, and the international influences behind the local parties. |
Le Liban-Sud: espace périphérique, espace convoité
Jacques Seguin, Jacques Soppelsa
History Analysis
L'Harmattan (coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient) 1989
A study on the situation in South Lebanon in an attempt to explain the conflicts between the multiple and changing protagonists. |
Le Liban: Émergence de la liberté et de la démocratie au Proche-Orient
Hyam Mallat
History Analysis
Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 2014
A new approach to Lebanon's History, from the 16th century to our day, through its political, social, and cultural evolution. |
Le Liban; Itinéraire dans une Guerre Incivile
Ahmad Beydoun
History Analysis
CERMOC 1993
Account of a shattered society, torn communities, sacked cities, hurt childhood, in Lebanon's History. What led to the war. And about coexistence of Islam and Christianity. |
Le Livre et la Ville, Beyrouth et l'édition arabe [Al-kitab w-al-madeena: Bayrut w-al-nashr al-'arabi]
Franck Mermier
On Literature
Actes-Sud (french); Mukhtarat (arabic) 2005, 2006
The role of Beirut, within the publishing world, as the printing capital of Arabic books. |
Le maître de l’éclipse
Etel Adnan
Tales
Manuella 2014
Tales of love, loss, exile and other quotidian matters, of filmmakers, poets, professors, prostitutes, from 1930s Beirut through early 1960s San Francisco to the first Gulf war, illustrating the relations between innocence and power, love and sorrow, visible and invisible realities. |
Le Martyr du Liban
Thierry Desjardins
Memoirs and Testimonies
Plon 1976
The author, a reporter from the 'Figaro', tells about the tragedy he witnessed in the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. |
Le Mémorial de la Guerre: 1975-1990
Joseph Chami
Memory, Identity, Society
Le Mémorial du Liban 2003
Photos taken during the Civil War in Lebanon, of destruction, death, politics and "great illusions". |
Le Mémorial du Liban, Volume 1: Du Mont-Liban à l'Indépendance: 1861-1943
Joseph G. Chami
History Analysis
2002
A collection destined to the young Lebanese who have no memory, no reference concerning the history of their country: Lebanon daily out of from media information: a chronology of facts month after month, developing the principal events, political, cultural, social- and analyzing them. |
Le Message
Andree Chedid
Novel
Flammarion (Fiction Française) 2000
In war-torn Beirut, Marie is shot on her way to meet her lover. She still finds the strength to write him a note telling him "I was coming" and give it to an old woman, Anya. Gorgio, a repentant ex-sniper promises to get an ambulance. Each of the characters becomes a gardian of love in this land of massacre and hatred. |
Le Moine, l'Ottoman et la Femme de l’Argentier
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Novel
Actes Sud 2003
During the 18th century, a young inexperienced monk falls in love with a woman he was supposed to bring back to her husband after she ran away with an Ottoman lord, and discovers Islam during his journey. |
Le Pluralisme des Statuts Personnels dans les Etats Multicommunautaires
Pierre Gannageh
Memory, Identity, Society
PUSJ 2000
Legal analysis. The personal status in the Near-East where the coexistence on the same land of different communities provokes conflicts within the laws and juridictions. |
Le Poème de Tyr
Abbas Beydoun translated by Jihad Kadhim
Poetry
Actes Sud 2002
In this poem -that is also a story on society-, Abbas Beydoun honours his native village: describing: sea and mountains, peasants attracted to the city but then rejected by it, sailors . . nature and human nature. |
