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Post any books set in Lebanon here.

Books set in Lebanon:


The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
The Night Counter by Alia Yunis
I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine
Yalo: A Novel by Elias Khoury
Little Mountain by Elias Khoury
Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Origins: A Memoir by Amin Maalouf
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
The Story of Zahra: A Novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World by Samuel Shimon
Beirut Blues: A Novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon by Lara Deeb
The Bullet Collection by Patricia Sarrafian Ward
The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury
The Stone of Laughter by Hoda Barakat
Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir by Khalil Zena El
Oranges in No Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller
The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine by Hassan Daoud
The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami
The Ghosts of Martyrs Square by Michael Young
Inshallah by Oriana Fallaci
White Masks by Elias Khoury
Being Arab by Samir Kassir
Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women by Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
Resistance: My Life for Lebanon by Soha Bechara
B As in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes
Beirut Nightmares by غادة السمان
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish
A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
Beaufort by Ron Leshem
Once upon a time in Beirut by Catherine Taylor
Somewhere Home by Nada Awar Jarrar
As Though She Were Sleeping by Elias Khoury
Give Me Death by John Fullerton (AKA "This Green Land")

The Daydreaming Boy by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut by Salma Abdelnour

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Women of Sand and Myrrh: A Novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead
Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey by Fouad Ajami

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Flight Against Time by Emily Nasrallah
A House Not Her Own: Stories from Beirut by Emily Nasrallah
A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered by Kamal S. Salibi

Both great as a reference to the history of this area.

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple

Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Because the books settings are diverse, and the author Lebanese:
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf


Also:
Taken on Trust: An Autobiography by Terry Waite

Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar

A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return Graphic Novel....very well done.

My book "Let Us Not Live in Ignorance" is largely set in Lebanon in the 1980's, during the civil war. It's a multi-leveled love story -- familial, fraternal, romantic -- that encourages compassion and open-mindedness. The story's message is very relevant to today's international, cross-cultural tensions. Let Us Not Live in Ignorance

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

The Stone of Laughter by Hoda Barakat

Tell The Running Water by Abbas El-Zein

Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes

Confessions by Rabee Jaber

More books set in Lebanon:


Abu Jmeel's Daughter and Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales by Jamal Sleem Nuweihed
Ali and His Russian Mother by Alexandra Chreiteh
Allah's Fire by Gayle Roper (1st book in Task Force Valor series)
Alphabets of Sand: Selected Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Always Coca-Cola by Alexandra Chreiteh
Maya Zankoul's Amalgam Vol. 2 by Maya Zankoul
American Assassin by Vince Flynn (1st book in Mitch Rapp series)
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Arab Women in Love & War: Fleeting Eternities by غادة السمان
Arms for Adonis: Blood and Love in Lebanon by Charlotte Jay
At Close Quarters by Gerald Seymour
Autumn Equinox by Lincoln Cole
A Balcony Over the Fakihani: Three Novellas by Liana Badr
Beirut '75 by Ghada Samman
Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi
A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War by Cathy Sultan
Beirut in Shades of Grey by Dana K. Haffar
Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim
Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir by Zena el Khalil
Beirut: Frontline Story by Sélim Nassib
Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut
Birds of September by املي نصرالله
Blackbodying by Dimitri Nasrallah
The Blond Texts and The Age of Embers by Nadia Tuéni
Bone Ash Sky by Katerina Cosgrove
The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
Borrowed Time by Hassan Daoud
The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol by Elias Khoury
Bye-Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-79 by Lamia Ziadé
City Gates by Elias Khoury

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Part of my book "Walking for Peace, an inner journey" - memoir of my Rome-to-Jerusalem walk for peace - takes place in Lebanon, as we entered northern Lebanon from Syria and walked the entire coastline (Tripoli - Byblos - Beirut - Saida - Sour) down to the border with Israel. Unfortunately, we could not cross that border on foot as it was closed with land mines and barbed wire.

Perhaps this book fits?

I'm also Lebanese :-)

Hello!

My name is Sabine, I am Lebanese and I have published an ebook two weeks before the October 17, 2019 revolution!

The first two chapters of my book are for free and I need feedback from avid readers as I have another book on the line!

I would love your help.

This is the link for the ebook;

https://books2read.com/b/mVrY6r

Regards beautiful readers

Song for the Missing

Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage.

Ghady & Rawan by Fatima Sharafeddine.

A History of the Big House