Le Prince des Cyniques
Ramzi T. Salameh
Novel
FMA/Buchet Chastel 1999
The Lebanese as they are, sell-outs, greedy for power, obsessed with profit, and incapable of remembering lessons of the past. |
Le Prince des Génies
Jihad Darwiche illustrations by Françoise Joire
Tales
L’Harmattan (Contes du roseau) 1992
The path will be long and tortuous... |
Le printemps 2005 au Liban
Rita Chemaly
History Analysis
L'Harmattan 2009
This books depicts the process started since the assassination of Prime Minister Rafic el-Hariri on February 14th 2005, describing all the events that took place on the ground including the popular uprising instigated by the national liberation movement and the march 14th 2005 rally… |
Le Proche-Orient éclaté, 1956-2000
Georges Corm
History Analysis
Gallimard (Folio) 1999
The history of the Middle-East since 1956 until today: The author examines the value and the consequences of the numerous attempts for peace in this region and the life of its people. |
Le quartier de Sanayeh à Beyrouth
Pascale, Elias, Elie Féghali, Khoury, Rizkallah
Architecture and Urban Studies
Presses de l’Ifpo 2009
This book portrays the quartier Sanayeh in Beyrouth, born in the late 19th century and symbolizing modernity within the Ottoman empire, and describes the way it is seen and experienced today: a traditional space where life follows the rhythm of ritual ceremonies, but first and foremost, the Sanayeh garden… |
Le Retour à la Vie
Lena Freiha
Memoirs and Testimonies
Librairie Antoine 1997
This work is an expression of Lena Freiha's feelings and state of mind throughout her sufferings caused by a violent husband; aiming to help other women to overcome their physical and spiritual pain. |
Le roman arabe
Kadhim Jihad Hassan
On Literature
Actes-Sud 2006
This work dedicated to the Arab novel from the Nahda period (1834) up to 2004, includes a chapter on the Lebanese novels, especially those written during the civil war and in its aftermath. |
Le Roman de Beyrouth
Alexandre Najjar
Novel
Plon 2005
Through this story of three generation of a Lebanese family, the author recounts the history of Beirut and its struggle. |
Le Silence du ténor
Alexandre Najjar
Memoirs and Testimonies
Plon 2006
The author's homage to his father, a tough lawyer who, after a long and prosperous career, suffered a heart attack. |
Le Système Boone
Percy Kemp
Novel
Albin Michel 2002
The story of the battle of a "Club House" -Her Majesty's Secret Service- agent to preserve his quiet way of life on the shores of the Mediterranean, a pleasant life disturbed by the anti-terrorist battle.
This book sheds light on the secrets and behind the scenes, the rivalries and manipulations dominating the life of double agents and spies. |
Le Théâtre au Liban
COLLECTIF
On Art
Actes sud (Du Théâtre N°22), 1998
A study on theater in Lebanon. |
Le Vin Mystique
Salah Stetie
Memory, Identity, Society
Albin Michel 2002
Eight essays studying a few symbolic themes of Islam, showing that this civilization, beyond the problems it is facing today, remains one of the richest one relatively to symbols. |
Le Virus de la Violence : La guerre civile est en chacun de nous
Adnan Houbballah
Memory, Identity, Society
Albin Michel 1996
The Lebanese war psycho-analyzed. |
Learning English
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Interlink Books 2009
The narrator learns in the newspaper that his father was murdered, a victim of a vendetta that has spread fear and death in his village for generations. He goes back home where he must deal with the tough social environement where he was born, and with the story of his family. |
Learning English
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Actes-Sud 2001
The narrator learns in the newspaper that his father was murdered, a victim of a vendetta that has spread fear and death in his village for generations. He goes back home where he must deal with the tough social environement where he was born, and with the story of his family. |
Leaving Beirut, Women and the Wars Within
Mai Ghoussoub
Novel
Saqi Books 1997
The author describes her youth and the civil war in Lebanon in a plea for cultural diversity. |
Lebanese Place-Names: Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon: A Typology of Regional Variation and Continuity
Elie Wardini
Memory, Identity, Society
Peeters Publishing 2002
"1724 Lebanese place-names in the districts of Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon. The aim of this book is to: establish a database of place-names based on fieldwork; present the etymologies of these names based on the latest findings in Semitic lexicography, onomastics and dialectology; and plot the results across the Lebanese territory." |
Lebanon
Pierre Pinta translated by Helen Loveday
History Analysis
Odyssey Publications 2002
A book with maps and photographs illustrating Lebanon's history: trades, conquest, that led the Lebanese people to become diverse in culture and beliefs, and where, recently, religious differences led to civil war. |
Lebanon
Jan McDaniel
History Analysis
Mason Crest Publishers 2002
Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and major cities of Lebanon. |
Lebanon A Mosaic of Cultures, Liban Une Mosaïque de Cultures
Nina Jidejian
On Art
Dar al-Nahar 2001
An illustrated history guide of Lebanon’s rich cultural heritage preserved by the Lebanese artisans. |
Lebanon and Arabism
Raghid el-Solh
Memory, Identity, Society
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
A study on "the interaction between Arab nationalism and Lebanese local sentiments between 1936 and 1945", emphasizing on "the internal changes which led to the inclusion of the Arab nationalists of Lebanon in the political process, culminating in the so-called Lebanese National Pact and the independence of the country in 1943." |
Lebanon in Strife : Student Preludes to the Civil War
Halim I. Barakat
History Analysis
University of Texas Press 1977
A prelude to the Lebanese Civil War: The development of the student movement concerned with the question of national identity and struggle for independence that began to emerge . . . when the struggle for independence started to take shape in the Middle East and the rest of the Third World countries. |
Lebanon in the 1950s
Caroline Attie
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. in Association With the Centre of Lebanese Studies), 2002
The author explains the truth behind the intrigues and politics that dominated Lebanon in the 1950s that were marked by social and political conflicts and bitter fighting. |
Lebanon On Hold
Rosemary Hollis, Nadim Shehadeh
History Analysis
Royal Institute of International Affairs 1996
A special paper from the Middle East Programme containing analytical essays (by 17 international specialists) on the reassessment of Lebanon's position in the Middle East peace process after the Israeli attack of April 1996 -from a Lebanese perspective-, and on how to bring a viable peace to the region. |
Lebanon's injured identities: who represents whom during a civil war
Ghassane Salame
History Analysis
Papers on Lebanon no. 2, Center of Lebanese Studies, Oxford 1986
'Papers on Lebanon are a series of analytical essays dealing with historical, political and economic issues contributed by the Center of Lebanese Studies' staff and other scholars in the field.' |
Lebanon's Quest: The Search for a National Identity, 1926-39
Meir Zamir
Memory, Identity, Society
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
The forming of Lebanon's political system and political economy between the first and the second World Wars. 'the inter-and intra-sectarian relations against the backdrop of the conflicting pressures from Damascus and Paris, the stands of the Christians and Muslims towards the Lebanese state' |
Lebanon, the fractured country
David Gilmour
History Analysis
ed. M. Robertson 1983
The author explains why civil war was inevitable in Lebanon; "political instability being an unavoidable and necessary occurrence within the Lebanese society". |
Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus
Nadim Shehadi, Dana Haffar-Mills, Kamal S. Salibi
History Analysis
The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1988
This volume is the outcome of a conference organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in Oxford in September, 1987, written by a group of scholars and experts on Lebanon and cover themes that explain both the roots of the Lebanese conflict and the basis for resolving it. |
Lebanon: A History, 600 - 2011
William W. Harris
History Analysis
Oxford Univ. Press, USA 2012
The history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its surroundings, describing the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon and depicting the identities of its Maronite Christians, Shi‘a Muslims, and Druze, from their origins between the 6th and 11th centuries… up until today’s Modern Lebanon. |
Lebanon: A House Divided
Sandra Mackey
History Analysis
Pub W. W. Norton & Co. 2006
A History of Lebanon’s civil war with an introduction on recent events, describing its role as the gateway between West and East. |
Lebanon: A Shattered Country
Elizabeth Picard
History Analysis
Holmes & Meier Publishers 2001 (1st ed. 1996)
An analysis of The interplay of 'communal conflicts and outside forces' and their effect on the Lebanese social balance. |
Lebanon: Death of a Nation
Sandra Mackey
History Analysis
Anchor Book Published by Doubleday 1990 (1st ed. 1989; post-script in 1991)
The History of Lebanon, its conflicts and wars, and stories in Lebanon throughout its History. |
Lebanon: Four Journeys to the Past
Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Memoirs and Testimonies
Dar An-Nahar 1998
"Travelogues, autobiography and history into four short stories. From the bleak present and the gloomy depths of the [Lebanese] Civil War (1975-90), the author reminisces about the "beauty, magic, mystery," and the "enchantment" of Lebanon." |
Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis
Barry Rubin
History Analysis
Palgrave Macmillan 2010
An explanation of the issues, events, and personalities involved in Lebanon, a country considered as being afflicted with the most “political battles, military conflicts, and complexity per person and per square mile”. |
Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence
Eyal Zisser
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
The history of Lebanon since its independence: the forming of its character that 'explains' its future 'both rich and successful and troubled and tragic.' |
Lebanon: The Politics of a Penetrated Society
Tom Pierre Najem
History Analysis
Routledge 2003
"….A concise and lucid account of contemporary Lebanese society through both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from the civil war combined with essential pre-war elements to define the contemporary political processes in Lebanon." |
Lebanon: War & Politics in a Fragmented Society
Charles Winslow
History Analysis
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd 1996
'History and political analysis of Lebanon from ancient times to the present day; on the civil and sectarian strife that has characterized the country's past and contemporary history.' |
Lebanons Quest, the Road to Statehood 1929-1939
Meir Zamir
History Analysis
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000
Analysis of the forming of inter- and intra-sectarian relations in Lebanon between 1929 and 1939. |
Lernin Inglish
Rashid al-Daif
Novel
Al-Nahar; Riad El-Rayyes 1998, 2005
The narrator learns in the newspaper that his father was murdered, a victim of a vendetta that has spread fear and death in his village for generations. He goes back home where he must deal with the tough social environement where he was born, and with the story of his family. |
Les "Petites Ecoles" du Mont-Liban. Joseph Delore, s.j. (1873-1944)
Levon Nordiguian (Directed by)
Memory, Identity, Society
PUSJ 2003
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibit under the same title showing the photo archives of the Oriental Library (school groups, first communion…) testifying about the great effort the New Mission of the Company of Jesus put into teaching rural population and spreading French influence starting 1831 in Syria and Lebanon. |
Les Belles Étrangères (incl. 1 CD)
Collectif
Memoirs and Testimonies
Gallimard 2007
An anthology of unpublished texts, excerpts from novels, poems, comics, either written originally in French or translated, displaying various aspects of contemporary Lebanese literature written by 12 Lebanese writers having all experienced, whether first-hand or from afar, the civil war in Lebanon. |
Les Broussailles
Nadim Takieddine
Novel
Dar An-Nahar 2000
Aphorisms in French and Arabic. |
Les carnets d’Urbain de Valsère
Gerard Khoury
Novel
Dar An-Nahar, Geuthner, 2003
This novel, a mix of facts and fiction, starts with the true story of the author finding 27 unsigned beautiful drawings in an antiques store in the 80s. He identified the locations and the period, thus discovering the importance of these documents relatively to the French-Lebanese relations. |
Les Colombes du Liban
Michele Lagabrielle illustrations by Arno
Tales
Bayard 1992
(9-14 years)
In Beirut devastated by the shelling, Pierre -Lebanese, Christian- and Alia -Palestinian, Muslim- decide to fight against the war and to prove that peace is a possible thing. |
Les Druzes de Belgrade
Rabee Jaber
Novel
Gallimard 2015
This novel tells the story of the Druze fighters forced to leave after the 1860 civil war in Mount Lebanon and go to the fortress of Belgrade, and who took along with them a Chrisitian man in exchange for the freedom of a fellow fighter. |
Les Echelles du Levant
Amin Maalouf
Novel
LGF (Le Livre de Poche) 1998
Through the story of man, son of a turkish ottoman father and of an armenian mother exiled in Lebanon, and his relationship with a clandestine jewish girl, the author illustrates the dream of a peaceful non-sectarian Lebanon. |
Les Enfants de la louve
Georges N. Rubeiz
Novel
FMA 2001
Through this apparently light humorous novel, the author tells about the historical, socio-political and cultural aspects defining the lebanese identity. |
Les Femmes et la Guerre
Madeleine Gagnon
Memory, Identity, Society
Fayard 2001
Women from Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, victims of war, who have lost their men and who have suffered brutality and abuse from the ennemy. |
Les Identités Meurtrières
Amin Maalouf
Novel
Grasset 1998
An analysis of our present societies and the necessity to redefine identity; its present definition being the cause of massacres. |
Les Illuminés [Ahl al'Hawa]
Hoda Barakat
Novel
french ed. translated by François Zabbal, Actes Sud; arabic ed. Dar An-Nahar; 1999, 1993
The main character of this novel is crippled and tries to find the reasons for his handicap in the war. |
