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Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, MATTI FRIAbirached, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ABIDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMAnderson, Sulome
Summary: The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, SULOME ANDDaoud, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOHage, Rawi
Summary: Picking up his late father's arrangement with an anti-religious sect that performs secret burials for marginalized outcasts, an eccentric undertaker in 1970s Beirut confronts perspectives on death in the face of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010