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  • ChronicleThe Phoenician HistoryΦοινικικὴ ἱστορίαPhilo of Byblos · 120A Phoenician cosmogony that has come down to us only through the quotations of an adversary.Literature
  • NovelLeg over Legالساق على الساقFaris al-Shidyaq · 1855The journey of a double of the author through the East and Europe, a pretext for satire and for praise of the learned language.Literature
  • NovelThe Caliph's Sisterالعباسة أخت الرشيدJurji Zaydan · 1906The fall from favour of a family of viziers under Harun al-Rashid, told through the secret love of the caliph's sister and his vizier.LiteraturePublic domain
  • PoetryThe ProphetKahlil Gibran · 1923A prophet's farewell to the city where he has lived, in twenty-six meditations written in English.Literature
  • CinemaThe Adventures of Elias Mabrukمغامرات إلياس مبروكJordano Pidutti · 1930An emigrant who has returned to find his family, the subject of the very first silent film shot in Lebanon.Cinema
  • CinemaIn the Ruins of Baalbekبين هياكل بعلبكGiulio de Luca and Karam Boustany · 1936A thwarted love in the ruins of Baalbek, the subject of the first Lebanese talking film.Cinema
  • NovelالرغيفTawfiq Yusuf Awwad · 1939not translated into EnglishA hunted activist and a starving village, in Mount Lebanon, in the war years when the Arab revolt is being prepared.Literature
  • TheatreMonsieur Bob'leGeorges Schehadé · 1951not translated into EnglishThree acts in which a small town lives in the beneficent shadow of a man about whom nobody knows anything.Literature
  • CinemaWhere To?إلى أين؟Georges Nasser · 1957A father has left for Brazil, and the house he leaves behind learns to wait for twenty years.Cinema
  • PoetryلنOunsi el-Hajj · 1960not translated into EnglishA collection that frees Arabic poetry from its ancient forms, by a pioneer of Arab surrealism.Literature
  • Novelطيور أيلولEmily Nasrallah · 1962not translated into EnglishA Lebanese village emptied of its young people by emigration, seen by those who stay behind.Literature
  • CinemaThe Ring Sellerبياع الخواتمYoussef Chahine · 1965A sung village comedy in which an invented brigand stands in for the government.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Watchman's Daughterبنت الحارسHenri Barakat · 1968A young woman makes with her own hands the danger on which her father's job depends, in a village where nothing happened any more.Cinema
  • CinemaA Hundred Faces for a Single Dayمئة وجه ليوم واحدChristian Ghazi · 1972Sixty-four minutes in black and white, with no continuous plot, in which those who own and those who fight are shown in the same movement.Cinema
  • CinemaBeirut Oh Beirutبيروت يا بيروتMaroun Bagdadi · 1975Four young people and a city, filmed just before everything tipped over.Cinema
  • NovelLittle Mountainالجبل الصغيرElias Khoury · 1977Five accounts of the Lebanese war, from the hill of Achrafieh to the mountain and on to exile in Paris.Literature
  • NovelSitt Marie RoseEtel Adnan · 1978The novel of a real abduction in 1976, written shortly afterwards by a woman who had known the victim.Literature
  • PoetryLebanon: Twenty Poems for One LoveLiban : vingt poèmes pour un amourNadia Tueni · 1979Twenty poems that make Lebanon at war the object of a love: Nadia Tueni's song for her country.Literature
  • NovelThe Story of Zahraحكاية زهرةHanan al-Shaykh · 1980A young woman crushed by her own family lives through the war in Beirut and finds there a freedom that peacetime denied her.Literature
  • CinemaBeirut the Encounterبيروت اللقاءBorhane Alaouié · 1981Two friends separated by the demarcation line try to speak to each other through cassette tapes.Cinema
  • NovelThe House of Mathildeبناية ماتيلدHassan Daoud · 1983A building emptied of its inhabitants as the civil war goes on: Hassan Daoud's first novel.Literature
  • CinemaLeila and the Wolvesليلى والذئابHeiny Srour · 1984A century of the Levant retold from the side of women, to whom the archives gave no voice.Cinema
  • PoetryصورAbbas Beydoun · 1985not translated into EnglishTyre sung by a poet who grew up there, so that his life and the place become one.Literature
  • CinemaA Suspended Lifeغزل البناتJocelyne Saab · 1985A teenage girl born in war and a painter who expects nothing more meet in Beirut.Cinema
  • NovelLeo AfricanusLéon l'AfricainAmin Maalouf · 1986The imaginary autobiography of a sixteenth-century traveller, from lost Andalusia to Renaissance Rome.Literature
  • NovelLettre posthumeDominique Eddé · 1989not translated into EnglishA long letter about a country that has become impossible to recount, written at the end of fourteen years of war.Literature
  • NovelThe Stone of Laughterحجر الضحكHoda Barakat · 1990Beirut in flames, seen by a young man for whom nothing has prepared him to fight.Literature
  • NovelDear Mr Kawabataعزيزي السيد كواباتاRashid al-Daif · 1995A letter to a dead Japanese writer to understand the Lebanese war: a novel often studied as a major text on the civil war.Literature
  • CinemaWest Beirutبيروت الغربيةZiad Doueiri · 1998Three teenagers and a Super 8 camera in the Beirut split in two in the spring of 1975.Cinema
  • CinemaPhantom Beirutأشباح بيروتGhassan Salhab · 1998A man believed dead returns to the Beirut of the end of the war.Cinema
  • NarrativeThe School of WarL'École de la guerreAlexandre Najjar · 1999A Beirut childhood during the civil war, told between gravity and irony by the one who lived it.Literature
  • CinemaA Civilized PeopleمتحضراتRanda Chahal Sabbag · 1999Foreign domestic workers left behind in the fine apartment buildings of Beirut, while the war rumbles on.Cinema
  • CinemaAround the Pink Houseالبيت الزهريJoana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige · 1999Two displaced families and a house slated for demolition, as the capital rebuilds itself.Cinema