In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. His spiritual son Dr Khaleel --- who has no real medical qualifications - nurses the older man, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. In an att[...]

Meelya's dreams are her refuge from events that threaten her or escape her understanding. She leaves her home in Lebanon to live in Nazareth with her Palestinian husband, but Mansour - an older man who fell for her beauty - is frustrated by her spiritual absence. When Mansour's brother's death deman[...]

Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to Beirut, a homeland still reeling from war? It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself. In Beirut Karim will learn[...]

Yalo är en fattig ung man från Beirut. Han förhörs av polisen för sina påstådda brott: våldtäkt, rån och bombattentat. Men vem är egentligen skyldig? Hans liv har präglats av inbördeskrigets våld och skräck. Kriget har [...]

Lilla berget, en pastoral kulle i utkanten av Beirut, symboliserar det gamla fredliga samhället med traditionella arabiska värden som vänlighet och gästfrihet, i kontrast mot den brutala moderniseringen av Beirut och de nya våldsideologierna.

Berättelserna i denna bok handlar om mä[...]