Beirut Blues
Asmahan skriver brev, desperat, vältaligt, fängslande för att ge mening åt sitt liv och kasta lite glans över det. Men hon skriver också för att belysa kriget som söndersliter hennes land och återkalla sina minnen av det forna Beirut arkitekturen,...
Beirut Station
'Vidich has firmly established himself in the very top flight of espionage writers, with a series of slow-burn character studies putting him in the line of le Carré.' - CrimeReads A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Sta...
Duet in Beirut
Expelled Mossad agent, Ronen, has disappeared following a failed assassination attempt on the life of the Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel. Feared to be on an unauthorized mission that will bring catastrophe to his co...
Beirut Hellfire Society - A Novel
On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society-an anti-r...
Fadia Ahmad. Beyrouth | Beirut
Spanish-born photographer Fadia Ahma (b.1975) lives and works in Lebanon. Her poetic series of photographs of Beirut eloquently captures the street life of that resilient city; merchants on street corners, grocers, fishermen, bathers, street artis...
Beirut, I Love You
This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs. In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the...
Beirut Station
'Vidich has firmly established himself in the very top flight of espionage writers, with a series of slow-burn character studies putting him in the line of le Carre.' - CrimeReadsA stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.Lebanon, 2006. The Israel-Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos.The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own.She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Analise is now the target and there is no one she can trust.A tightly-wound international thriller, Beirut Station is Paul Vidich's best novel to date.
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Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut
This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: "the suspended now". Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and...
Reconstructing Beirut
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath o...
Beirut
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death...
Beirut
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death...
My Port of Beirut
'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' - New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calli...