Abdelnour, Salma.

Summary: The author chronicles her return to Lebanon after leaving the war-torn country at the age of nine and living in the United States for thirty years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.925 ABDELNOUR, SALMA ABD

Alameddine, Rabih

Summary: "Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Summary: Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former US diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEI

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEI

Warner, Andy

Summary: "In 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world's most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 WAR

Karam, Adel

Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INS

Abirached, Zeina

Summary: Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ABI

Summary: Travel to Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, feast on falafel, shop 'til you drop at the souk, listen to local rap artists, take a fishing trip at Byblos, go fossil hunting, and master the art of belly dancing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.69 BEI

Alyan, Hala

Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALY

Alameddine, Rabih.

Summary: In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Shaykh, Hanan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Swinson, David

Summary: "In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWI

Daoud, Hassan

Summary: "The Penguin" is a physically deformed young man who lives with his aging mother and father in one of the "temporary" buildings. His father spends his days on the balcony of their apartment, looking at the far-off city and pining for his lost way of life. Mother and father both find their purpose each day in worrying about the future for their son, while he spends his time in an erotic fantasy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAO

Summary: "Traveler Ian Wright starts his journey in Jordan's Wadi Rum Desert, Traveling south past the ruins at Petra and then on to Beirut in Lebanon. He ends his journey in Syria at the ancient town of Palmyra. Further, south traveler Megan McCormick visits battle scarred Kuwait before traveling on to Dubai and finally Oman. Justine Shapiro completes the journey traveling through Israel and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.6 MID