Hachette Antoine/Novel

Once Upon a Time Mikhail Naimy These stories, from "The Barren" to "Her New Year" and "Sa'adat al-Beik" and others, all take place either in the homeland or in emigration. They revolve around the scourges, problems, and issues that emerge from life, which are...

The Last Day Mikhail Naimy   "In this novel, Mikhail Naimy depicts the experience of a man who, at midnight, learns that the next twenty-four hours are all that remain of his life. Thus, Musa al-Askari, in these few hours, must confront his entire...

Idols Mikhail Naimy   “Every era has its idols. Some are ancient, inherited by successive generations. Others are new, created by new circumstances. Some are worshipped by all people, while others are worshipped only by a specific class within the human community. Whoever thought...

Job Mikhail Naimy     "Naimy uses the story of Job in the Torah as a means to dramatize his intellectual convictions on the subject of suffering. He once said in one of his collections of proverbs, "Your enemy is a friend disguised as...

In The New Sieve Mikhail Naimy   A book brimming with the opinions of the great writer Mikhail Naimy on masterpieces of world literature and the works of many of our contemporary writers and thinkers. Just as "The Sieve" played an active role in...

In the Wind Mikhail Naimy     A collection of engaging articles and amusing stories that Mikhail Naimy accustomed us to presenting from time to time to his readership and admirers of his literature in all Arab countries. In it, he addresses, in his...

Karam on the Path Mikhail Naimy   A collection of sayings and proverbs that shine, framed by pure wisdom and keen insight. You read them again and again, and each time you rediscover their profound meanings and greatness, which makes you more attached to...

For decades, Salam al-Rassi, the "Sheikh of Folk Literature," collected the gems of Lebanese folk heritage, including proverbs and wisdom, documenting the Lebanese folk experience, particularly that of the southern countryside. His remarkable talent was characterized by its fluency and masterful blending of the...

Yours is the Yearning   The writer who started her life with poetry and built her glory as a novelist returns to poetry once again. In this collection, Ahlam Mosteghanemi gathers some of her many poems and shares them with her readers in writing...

Forgetting Ahlam Mosteghanemi This book, which sold over 50,000 copies, contains the subsequent stress and guidance offered by the author. It is a humorous and entertaining branch for women distressed by love. She presents her definition of desired masculinity and hoped-for femininity, narrates stories...

The Phoenix Mansour Eid   French journalist Bernard de Lo arrived in Lebanon to cover the events of the civil war, or perhaps it was pure chance that led him to that village, on that particular day. Damour, like other Lebanese villages, had been...

Wadjda Haifaa Al Mansour "Beneath her traditional abaya, Wadjda wears jeans and Converse sneakers. In her room, she secretly listens to Western rock and pop songs. In her dreams, she imagines herself racing against the wind on a bicycle, just like her friend Abdullah....

Don't you dream of having a spacious house, marrying a beautiful woman, and escaping life on the streets? If my house were as big as this special gift we have, its windows wouldn't have a single curtain. I like to see my surroundings all...

Oh, Reza, the most beautiful thing about writing is that you can't interrupt me. I admit that you might turn away from me if I speak to you, or silence me, or throw away our old gifts and letters and then lie about not...

The Internment Sameera Ahmed A novel set in a fictional version of the United States, unfolding at a thrilling, breathtaking pace, it is a call for hope and resilience, and a silent plea to move towards better societies today. Following the American President's declaration...

The Guard of Deceit Khaled Khalifa   Alone, as I always am, I do not enter through closed doors. My departure exhausts me, and the moons on the brass-hued nights hang over the gates of Damascus. Damascus, the abyss of waiting and crystal walls…...

The Faculty of Education, 1968. The students of Lebanon had never known such a time before, yet they certainly felt it. There was ample opportunity for leisure, for forming relationships with girls, and for discussing politics and expressing opinions freely. Everyone played, even in...

Gypsy Notebooks Khaled Khalifa At the threshold, I stand and observe the wall plastered with white lime. My grandmother rises from her sleep, enveloped in that awe I see in the eyes of others, so I approach her. Aisha protests and tries to pull...

A Chance for One Last Love Hassan Daoud     In the first Arab novel about the Coronavirus pandemic, relationships begin and end just like the pandemic itself. From his Beirut balcony, Ezzat spots a single light on a single balcony in the building...

No One Reached Them A novel that delves into the narratives of the region, proposing a new and different narrative for the city of Aleppo in the 19th and mid-20th centuries, through intertwined stories of doomed love, certain death through massacres, plague, earthquakes, and...