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Lebanon: A Country for No One & Everyone
Lebanon is not a country you understand.
It is a country you survive.
This book is not a history lesson, a political manifesto, or a nostalgic tribute. It is a raw, unfiltered exploration of what it means to live inside a nation shaped by collapse, contradiction, and survival. A Country for No One & Everyone is written from lived experience, not distant observation.
Lebanon is a place where beauty exists beside destruction, where humor masks grief, where faith coexists with exhaustion, and where hope is constantly rebuilt from ruins. This book dives into those contradictions without softening them. It examines how wars rewrite memory, how corruption erodes trust, how instability becomes routine, and how an entire population adapts to uncertainty as a way of life.
Through reflections on history, society, identity, and daily existence, the book explores how Lebanese people think, cope, love, leave, return, and survive. It speaks of a land that gives intensely and takes mercilessly, of a people who learn resilience not as inspiration, but as necessity. It confronts the emotional cost of displacement, the weight of inherited trauma, and the quiet strength required to keep moving forward when the future feels permanently delayed.
This is not a book written to explain Lebanon politely to the world. It is written to tell the truth, even when that truth is uncomfortable. It challenges romantic narratives, rejects simplified headlines, and refuses to turn suffering into spectacle. Instead, it offers clarity, honesty, and perspective drawn from within.
This book is for Lebanese readers who have lived these realities and never saw them articulated fully. It is for the diaspora who carry Lebanon within them long after leaving its borders. And it is for readers everywhere who want to understand what it means to exist in a country where survival becomes culture and endurance becomes identity.
This book is not for readers seeking comfort, neutrality, or easy conclusions.
It is for those willing to listen, reflect, and sit with difficult truths.
Lebanon may not belong to anyone.
But once you enter these pages, it will stay with you.
It is a country you survive.
This book is not a history lesson, a political manifesto, or a nostalgic tribute. It is a raw, unfiltered exploration of what it means to live inside a nation shaped by collapse, contradiction, and survival. A Country for No One & Everyone is written from lived experience, not distant observation.
Lebanon is a place where beauty exists beside destruction, where humor masks grief, where faith coexists with exhaustion, and where hope is constantly rebuilt from ruins. This book dives into those contradictions without softening them. It examines how wars rewrite memory, how corruption erodes trust, how instability becomes routine, and how an entire population adapts to uncertainty as a way of life.
Through reflections on history, society, identity, and daily existence, the book explores how Lebanese people think, cope, love, leave, return, and survive. It speaks of a land that gives intensely and takes mercilessly, of a people who learn resilience not as inspiration, but as necessity. It confronts the emotional cost of displacement, the weight of inherited trauma, and the quiet strength required to keep moving forward when the future feels permanently delayed.
This is not a book written to explain Lebanon politely to the world. It is written to tell the truth, even when that truth is uncomfortable. It challenges romantic narratives, rejects simplified headlines, and refuses to turn suffering into spectacle. Instead, it offers clarity, honesty, and perspective drawn from within.
This book is for Lebanese readers who have lived these realities and never saw them articulated fully. It is for the diaspora who carry Lebanon within them long after leaving its borders. And it is for readers everywhere who want to understand what it means to exist in a country where survival becomes culture and endurance becomes identity.
This book is not for readers seeking comfort, neutrality, or easy conclusions.
It is for those willing to listen, reflect, and sit with difficult truths.
Lebanon may not belong to anyone.
But once you enter these pages, it will stay with you.
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2025
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About the author
Nader Soubra
4 books29 followersNader Soubra is an interior architect & internationally acclaimed author whose work has been recognized by global platforms such as ArchDaily, Amazing Architecture, and the Harvard, MIT, Yale, Pratt, CCA, SCAD, RSID, UCL, Columbia, & New York School of Interior Design university libraries. With over ten years of expertise in transforming interior and architectural spaces into functional, inspiring works of art, Nader approaches design as more than surface aesthetics, he believes every space should tell a story and create a deep emotional connection with those who live and move within it.
With a meticulous eye for detail and a clear understanding of how design shapes our daily lives, he blends timeless design principles with cutting-edge technology to craft environments that are both beautiful and meaningful.
Beyond his design work, Nader is a published author whose books span design innovation and deeply personal storytelling. His debut title, The Future of Interior Design, explores where the field is headed and how emerging technologies are shaping creative practice. His memoir, A Story About Acceptance, is a heartfelt narrative about growth, loss, resilience, and the search for peace, with all proceeds donated to charity. His architectural expertise continues in his latest work, The Future of Architecture, expanding on his vision for the built environment of tomorrow.
With plans to publish more titles covering design, self-discovery, and human connection, Nader uses both pen and pencil to inspire. Whether crafting impactful spaces or writing transformative narratives, he is committed to elevating the human experience, through design and storytelling.
With a meticulous eye for detail and a clear understanding of how design shapes our daily lives, he blends timeless design principles with cutting-edge technology to craft environments that are both beautiful and meaningful.
Beyond his design work, Nader is a published author whose books span design innovation and deeply personal storytelling. His debut title, The Future of Interior Design, explores where the field is headed and how emerging technologies are shaping creative practice. His memoir, A Story About Acceptance, is a heartfelt narrative about growth, loss, resilience, and the search for peace, with all proceeds donated to charity. His architectural expertise continues in his latest work, The Future of Architecture, expanding on his vision for the built environment of tomorrow.
With plans to publish more titles covering design, self-discovery, and human connection, Nader uses both pen and pencil to inspire. Whether crafting impactful spaces or writing transformative narratives, he is committed to elevating the human experience, through design and storytelling.
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January 20, 2026
Long before Lebanon was a name, it was a feeling. A strip of land caught between mountains and sea, kissed by sunlight, guarded by cedar forests, destined to be desired.
This book is a book of observations and meditations; it is a book of reproaches and admirations.
This book capture Lebanon, the good and the bad.
It is an open love letter to a beloved, deranged, beautiful, wrecked, resilient and unbreakable country. A tiny country which has been treated unfairly throughout history; a country which has been used, raped and abandoned.
A country which could do better.
A country which I believe and hope would rise again, healthier and stronger.
Thanks to the author for sharing his book with me.
This book is a book of observations and meditations; it is a book of reproaches and admirations.
This book capture Lebanon, the good and the bad.
It is an open love letter to a beloved, deranged, beautiful, wrecked, resilient and unbreakable country. A tiny country which has been treated unfairly throughout history; a country which has been used, raped and abandoned.
A country which could do better.
A country which I believe and hope would rise again, healthier and stronger.
Thanks to the author for sharing his book with me.
January 10, 2026
We have seen alot of books and programs talking about Lebanon, but we had never came to a direct honest clear view about it.
This book is a clear crystal image for reality, no makeups..no masks.
If u want to see the full image, you came to the right place, reading this book is like journey from the past to future passing through hell and heaven, yet you cannot understand the miracles about it is people and the country itself.
Thanks to the author for filming it all by traslating his amazing words into solid scenes, and in each chapter you will travel in time, and you will feel the impacts as if you are part of it.
Must read 🔥
This book is a clear crystal image for reality, no makeups..no masks.
If u want to see the full image, you came to the right place, reading this book is like journey from the past to future passing through hell and heaven, yet you cannot understand the miracles about it is people and the country itself.
Thanks to the author for filming it all by traslating his amazing words into solid scenes, and in each chapter you will travel in time, and you will feel the impacts as if you are part of it.
Must read 🔥
January 6, 2026
*4.5 stars
This is not an easy book to read. It's interesting, raw, honest and direct. I enjoyed reading this, as it opened my eyes to a reality I did not know well. So I'm thankful to the author for sending me a copy of this novel, in exchange for an honest review.
The writing is perfect, every page carries weight without being dramatic for effect. The author did a great job at showing how things really are, and how they've been.
This book explores identity, loss, and endurance without from a personal perspective but trying to be as impartial as possible. I understand why the author did that but I wish we could have had some more personal insights. However, this is not a book meant to persuade the readers about Lebanon's reality but one meant to just show things as they are. To make readers all around the world understand things better, to make us a part of it.
What makes this book so powerful is its how raw it is at showing reality. It captures how dichotomies can exist side to side, and how to live with that. I think this book as the title says is for everyone, the people that live or know the country and the rest of the citizens of the world.
I feel this is an important read, a book that stays with you. That I'm sure I'll reread in a few years. It does not offer comfort, but it offers clarity and perspective. If you want a real, unfiltered look at what it means to live in Lebanon, this book is a must read.
This is not an easy book to read. It's interesting, raw, honest and direct. I enjoyed reading this, as it opened my eyes to a reality I did not know well. So I'm thankful to the author for sending me a copy of this novel, in exchange for an honest review.
The writing is perfect, every page carries weight without being dramatic for effect. The author did a great job at showing how things really are, and how they've been.
This book explores identity, loss, and endurance without from a personal perspective but trying to be as impartial as possible. I understand why the author did that but I wish we could have had some more personal insights. However, this is not a book meant to persuade the readers about Lebanon's reality but one meant to just show things as they are. To make readers all around the world understand things better, to make us a part of it.
What makes this book so powerful is its how raw it is at showing reality. It captures how dichotomies can exist side to side, and how to live with that. I think this book as the title says is for everyone, the people that live or know the country and the rest of the citizens of the world.
I feel this is an important read, a book that stays with you. That I'm sure I'll reread in a few years. It does not offer comfort, but it offers clarity and perspective. If you want a real, unfiltered look at what it means to live in Lebanon, this book is a must read.
January 4, 2026
The book: " Lebanon: A Country for No One & Everyone" is a deeply reflective reality. Focusing on historical significance, displacement, survival, loss, identity, & emotions tracks, grabbed my attention. Moreover, it let me establish a new image of a better healtier united Lebanon.
The quotes & expressions used in the book were real, simple, free of exaggeration, yet filled with resilience, belonging, & encouragement. The latter expressed the lived Lebanese stories rather than highlighting them through observing a film.
I agree that Lebanon is not a place to live only. It is a complex identity of pain & beauty. We should be resilient to handle all the instabilities & strengthen our roots rather than abandon them through migrations. Even if we had to leave for reasons, the belonging should be reshaped into developments rather than forgetting our traditions & values.
" Beauty, once noticed, is rarely left alone." NS 2026, a nice quote presented in this book.
The quotes & expressions used in the book were real, simple, free of exaggeration, yet filled with resilience, belonging, & encouragement. The latter expressed the lived Lebanese stories rather than highlighting them through observing a film.
I agree that Lebanon is not a place to live only. It is a complex identity of pain & beauty. We should be resilient to handle all the instabilities & strengthen our roots rather than abandon them through migrations. Even if we had to leave for reasons, the belonging should be reshaped into developments rather than forgetting our traditions & values.
" Beauty, once noticed, is rarely left alone." NS 2026, a nice quote presented in this book.
January 13, 2026
It is a book rich with information that touches the heart, it tries to shed light on issues through emotions and strong impact.
Reading it, we feel as if we are moving through different phases of time, through beautiful and painful moments, through love, pain, and hope.
It feels as though the book is a real mirror of Lebanon, with a message to all people who live there.
Wishing the writer continued success.
Reading it, we feel as if we are moving through different phases of time, through beautiful and painful moments, through love, pain, and hope.
It feels as though the book is a real mirror of Lebanon, with a message to all people who live there.
Wishing the writer continued success.
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