Books

In the Lebanese context, amidst the bloody events, and in a moment of temporal overlap, encompassing the past, present, and future, Emily Nasrallah weaves the threads of her novel, an innovative blend of scenes, memories, and aspirations, within the framework of a purposeful human...

Where did that wild emotion go, which turned your days into hell and pushed you to the brink of collapse, so you tore down your tents and fled? It's time and those hurtful memories, stripping you of your senses and pushing you to walk...

Through her stories, Emily Nasrallah paints a vivid picture of human suffering in war. In fact, some of the titles form a map of the relentless war's movement across the body of the nation, like the veins of a defiant human being, determined to...

The story has more than one side This is what Amal Nasrallah is trying to tell us, in what this new collection of her stories contains, which is colorful not only with events, but also with language and style that swing between frankness and...

This is what Emily Nasrallah is trying to tell us in this new collection of stories, which is colorful not only with events but also with language and style that swing between frankness and equivocation, between seriousness and absurdity, just as life is. In...

"September Birds" is an art exhibition that portrays the Lebanese village in all its aspects. If it weren't for the fact that your being is made of village soil, and if you didn't possess a large share of sensitivity, refined taste, keen observation, and...

The lady raised her hands and gestured to all of us to climb the steps between us. Then she invited us to sit around her. Her hair remained in gray ropes, undulating around her face, almost hiding its details, except for her eyes, which...

As I approached to greet her, the woman extended both of her hands. "This is Beirut," she said... A woman standing tall like a legend, strong, beautiful, and mysterious. I noticed her draped shawl cascading from her uplifted shoulders, flowing down towards her slender...

The Spring... This is a new work presented by Emily Nasrallah to readers of Arabic fiction, regardless of their homelands or backgrounds. As she continues her ascending narrative journey, she reaffirms the fundamental features of her literature, characterized by its luminous humanistic bent and...

Through the shadow of the woman, in every story of this collection, a spectrum emerges from the land of astonishment and strangeness. As you discern its features, you try to get closer to it, with the intention of getting to know it more, only...

This book, which has sold over 50,000 copies, contains the author's witty and humorous advice and guidance for women grieving the loss of love. She presents her definition of desired masculinity and longed-for femininity, recounts the stories of women who have suffered at the...

French journalist Bernard de Lout arrived in Lebanon to cover the civil war, or perhaps it was a coincidence that brought him to that village on that very day. Damour, like other Lebanese villages, had been wiped out by shells. Amid the rubble, Bernard...

Underneath her traditional abaya, Wadjda wears jeans and Converse shoes. In her room, she secretly listens to Western rock and pop songs. She sees herself racing the wind on a bicycle in her dreams, just like her friend Abdullah does. Yet this dream is...

Bana Al Abed was only three years old when a brutal civil war broke out in Aleppo, depriving her of her right to a happy and safe childhood. For the next four years, Bana would know nothing but bombing, destruction, and fear. The seven-year-old...

Revolutions are built on hope. A year has passed since the referendum that placed the names of 17-year-old Laila Amin and her parents on the ban list; five months since the Attorney General declared it legal to force citizens to relocate during wartime, based...

Don't you dream of having a big, spacious house, marrying a beautiful woman, and finding comfort from life on the streets? If I had a house the size of this building across from us, I wouldn't put a single curtain on its windows. I...

Oh, Rida, the most beautiful thing about writing is that you won’t interrupt me. I know that if I speak to you, you might turn your face away from me or silence me, or throw away our old gifts and letters and then lie...

Faculty of Education, year 1968. The students did not know that they were living in what would later be called the beautiful era of Lebanon, but they must have felt it. Back then, there was room for leisure in establishing relationships with girls, discussing...

In the first Arab novel about the Coronavirus pandemic, relationships begin and end just like the pandemic itself. From his Beirut balcony view, Ezzat notices a solitary light on a lonesome balcony in a building across from him. From that moment, the moment of...

Alone, as I always am, I don't enter through closed doors. My exit calms me, and the moons in the copper nights hang over the gates of Damascus. Damascus is the abyss of waiting and the walls of crystal... Close to the scent of...

On the threshold, I stand watching the wall plastered with white lime. My grandmother rises from her sleep, enveloped in the same awe I see in the eyes of others, and I approach her. Aisha protests and tries to grab my hand and pull...

He thought that silence might lead him to destruction, but he remained silent. He thought of the humans who seek strength to overcome oppression. He felt weak, and what he had believed all his life about the strength of fragility suddenly evaporated. He let...

After his long experience in writing, which was rendered with several awards, the Syrian writer Khalid Khalifa reverts to his inner self, channeling the voices from within this time. Contrary to his long novels, which conveyed the suffering of others and their perceptions of...

A novel that delves into the region's narratives, proposing a new and different narrative of the city of Aleppo in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, through intertwined stories of stillborn love, certain death through massacres, plague, earthquakes, and cholera, and the concept of identity...

A car travels from Damascus to Al-Anabiya with a corpse and three passengers – two men and a woman. They sit in anxious silence, while a brutal war rages on the outside, claiming more victims. Along the way, they encounter numerous checkpoints as they...

Dawn broke over the ruins. After half an hour of silence and frost, a new caravan appeared. Hundreds of women with their children, boys and girls. Armed in their black clothes. Their mouths gagged. They walked as if they were mobile prisons, hiding bodies...

Franz Goldstein is not just a publisher, and Edécile du Sable is not just a publishing house. Monsieur Goldstein devotes his work and his life to serving the cause, and his cause is represented by a novel being shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize....

The obscure writer receives an anonymous phone call. A peculiar number shows up on his phone screen. The gentle voice offers help... then the maze begins. The novel is divided into three books/parts and three voices. Yet, they all come together in one book,...

Through the story of Grandmother Nadia Al-Faour, the novel tells the story of Palestine in particular. Although the spatial context is Istanbul and Haifa, between Kadıköy and Wadi al-Nisnas, it is a story of Palestine under occupation, presenting a brief overview of different periods...

Love is a new life. What if, with every love, lovers shed their names, their titles, their past? Their sorrows and their pain? What if they began their stories with the lightness of newly born beings, a new Adam and Eve, every day. Monsieur...