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• EpicThe Ugaritic Baal CycleCycle de BaalAnonymous · -1350The myths of a Canaanite city of the Bronze Age, whose gods and images reappear in the Hebrew Bible.Literature
• Poetryبنت فكرMaryana Marrash · 1893not translated into EnglishA collection by a woman of Aleppo of the Nahda, in which occasional verse and the call to educate women share the same volume.Literature
• Essayأئمة الأدبKhalil Mardam · 1930not translated into EnglishFive lives of writers of the first Arab centuries, told by a man who had read the English before returning to his own.Literature
• Short filmتحت سماء دمشقIsmail Anzour · 1932A fiancée in Damascus under the Mandate who pays a blackmailer without explaining herself, and a betrothed who believes what he sees.Cinema
• NovelنهمChakib al-Jabiri · 1937not translated into EnglishThe European wandering of an heir who mistakes his restlessness for an appetite, and whom nothing he obtains satisfies.Literature
• Poetryقالت لي السمراءNizar Qabbani · 1944not translated into EnglishFirst collection by a law student from Damascus, whose sensual love poems caused a scandal.Literature
• Short storiesمرايا الناسWidad Sakakini · 1945not translated into EnglishDamascus scenes from the middle of the century, in which women kept at home observe one another, judge one another and make do with what they are left.Literature
• Poetryمن عمر أبو ريشةUmar Abu Risha · 1947not translated into EnglishA great lyric poet of the Levant gathers his poems of love, national pride and legendary figures.Literature
• Short storiesوفي الناس المسرةSaid Houraniyya · 1952not translated into EnglishA young man from Damascus who breaks with his family and their certainties, in a Syria that has just emerged from the mandate.Literature
• Short storiesأخبار من البلدHasib Kayali · 1954not translated into EnglishA satire of the years after independence, written in the language of the street.Literature
• Poetryحزن في ضوء القمرMuhammad al-Maghut · 1959not translated into EnglishPoems without metre in which the poverty of a village near Hama and anger at the Arab states share the same lines, between tenderness and sarcasm.Literature
• Novelأيام معهColette Khoury · 1959not translated into EnglishA very young girl from Damascus in love with a mature man, who refuses to lose herself in him as she has been taught to do.Literature
• Novelجيل القدرMuta Safadi · 1960not translated into EnglishA band of young men from the capital who see themselves as the generation of Arab unity, amid evenings of discussion, difficult love affairs and a plot.Literature
• PoetrySongs of Mihyar the Damasceneأغاني مهيار الدمشقيAdonis · 1961A collection that breaks with the old forms of Arabic verse, centred on a wanderer without ancestors.Literature
• NovelجومبيAdib Nahwi · 1965not translated into EnglishA town in the North the day after a coup d'état, people of modest means who reject what has just been undone, and a police force that knows them.Literature
• Novelالشراع والعاصفةHanna Mina · 1966not translated into EnglishA sailor without a ship, in a Syrian port shaken by war and rivalries.Literature
• Novelحسن جبلFaris Zarzur · 1969not translated into EnglishA peasant turned fighter, and the revolt against the occupier seen from the poor countryside.Literature
• Poetryتلويحة الأيدي المتعبةMamduh Adwan · 1970not translated into EnglishA weary poet speaks to a lost city as a lover would, and goes looking in ancient wars for the means to name defeat.Literature
• Feature filmالسكينKhaled Hammada · 1972A boy from Gaza sets out across the desert to join his mother, leaving behind a sister compromised with a collaborator.Cinema
• CinemaThe DupesالمخدوعونTawfik Saleh · 1972Three Palestinian refugees and a smuggler, in the furnace of the desert, on the road to a dreamed-of Kuwait.Cinema
• Feature filmالفهدNabil Maleh · 1972A dispossessed peasant takes to the hills against the agha and the gendarmes, in post-war Syria.Cinema
• Novelالزمن الموحشHaydar Haydar · 1973not translated into EnglishDamascene intellectuals adrift, between theory, drink and love affairs, in the Syria of the Six-Day War.Literature
• Novelقلوب على الأسلاكAbd al-Salam al-Ujayli · 1974not translated into EnglishA young provincial caught between four loves, in the Damascus of the Syrian-Egyptian union.Literature
• CinemaThe Massacre of Kafr Kassemكفر قاسمBorhane Alaouié · 1974A Palestinian village trapped by a curfew imposed without warning, in October 1956.Cinema
• NovelBeirut '75بيروت 75Ghada al-Samman · 1975Five travellers who have come to seek their fortune in a capital that crushes them, on the eve of a war.Literature
• Feature filmالأبطال يولدون مرتينSalah Dehni · 1977A child from a camp in Gaza who has seen his own die and decides, at eleven, to look no more.Cinema
• Short storiesTigers on the Tenth Dayالنمور في اليوم العاشرZakaria Tamer · 1978Brief fables in which the beast, the child and the old man speak in place of the oppressed.Literature
• Poetryغنوا يا أطفالSulayman al-Isa · 1979not translated into EnglishSongs made to be learned by heart in classrooms, where childhood and the promise of a remade country share the same verses.Literature
• Feature filmحبيبتي يا حب التوتMarwan Haddad · 1979A village boy who has gone up to the city for the sake of his family, and who discovers what the city demands in exchange.Cinema
• NovelSabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweetدمشق يا بسمة الحزنUlfat Idilbi · 1980The Damascus revolt of the twenties, seen from inside a house by a young girl who is forbidden to act.Literature
• Feature filmالمصيدةWadi Youssef · 1980A poor young woman of old Damascus, drawn into the evenings where dubious deals are made.Cinema
• NovelالوباءHani al-Rahib · 1981not translated into EnglishTwo centuries of a peasant lineage attached to its land, up to the seizure of power by the military.Literature
• Feature filmحادثة النصف مترSamir Zikra · 1981A minor clerk in Damascus in the sixties, wrapped up in himself, who is led one evening to a place where bigger things are discussed.Cinema
• CinemaThe BordersالحدودDuraid Lahham · 1984A man without papers stranded between two Arab border posts, in a satire of proclaimed unity.Cinema
• Feature filmDreams of the Cityأحلام المدينةMohamed Malas · 1984A Damascus childhood under the thumb of a tyrannical grandfather, during the years of coups d'état.Cinema
• Novelفقهاء الظلامSalim Barakat · 1985not translated into EnglishA prodigious newborn who grows up too fast, and a village in the North that his birth turns upside down.Literature
• Feature filmStars in Broad Daylightنجوم النهارOussama Mohammed · 1988An exchange marriage in a coastal village, where one understands in a single day who commands and who obeys.Cinema
• Feature filmليالي ابن آوىAbdellatif Abdelhamid · 1989A father who rules over his sons in a house in the mountains, and a radio announcing victories in June 1967.Cinema
• Novelدار المتعةWalid Ikhlasi · 1991not translated into EnglishA storyteller held captive by a seductress, in a city haunted by madness and desire.Literature
• Feature filmصهيل الجهاتMaher Kaddo · 1993A young woman who hunts down her father's murderers across the four horizons of Syria.Cinema
• Feature filmشيء ما يحترقGhassan Shmeit · 1993Two generations of displaced people from the Golan: the father lives in waiting, the son in easy money.Cinema
• Documentaryنور وظلالOmar Amiralay · 1994An inventor from Damascus who had built his cinema piece by piece, filmed in very old age by those who owe him theirs.Cinema
• TheatreRituals of Signs and Transformationsطقوس الإشارات والتحولاتSaadallah Wannous · 1996A notable's wife who breaks every taboo, in a city held by the mufti and the police.Literature
• Feature filmالترحالRimon Butros · 1997A family from Hama hanging on the absence of a father who has gone to fight in Palestine, at the time of the Nakba.Cinema

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