Shadid, Anthony.
Summary: "In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHADID, ANTHONY SHAAbdelnour, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.925 ABDELNOUR, SALMA ABDBlanford, Nicholas.
Summary: "Warriors of God shows how Hezbollah won hearts and minds with exhaustive social welfare programs and sophisticated propaganda skills. Blanford traces the group's secret military buildup since 2000 and reveals the stunning scope of its underground network of tunnels and bunkers, becoming the only journalist to independently discover and explore them."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 BLAHajali, Issam.
Contents: Ana Damir El Motakallim (11:42 min) -- Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard (3:27 min) -- Khobs (3:31 min) -- Lam Azal (3:36 min) -- Ada (4:58 min) -- Yawma Konna (4:34 min) -- Intazirne (3:13 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST HAJFriedman, Matti
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 FRIAlameddine, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALASoapkills (Musical group)
Summary: Soapkills is an indie electro-pop band based in Lebanon. The group was formed in October 1997 when Zeid Hamdan and Yasmine Hamdan, both born in Beirut in 1976 but not related, decided to explore and combine their interest in classical Arabic song and electronic music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SOAHeilman, Robert A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1990
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929 DEAJarawan, Pierre
Summary: "Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows Samir's search for Brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his homeland, Lebanon. This moving and gripping novel about family secrets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jarawan 2019Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEIGabriel, Brigitte.
Summary: A Christian-Arab journalist recalls her eyewitness to the deadly beginnings of fundamentalist Islam as her family spent seven years in an underground bomb shelter in order to survive a jihad against non-Muslim people, looking at the history, social movements, and religious divisions that have led to the current conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7204 GabriHughes, Dean
Summary: Hadi and Malek, two thirteen-year-old Syrian children living in Beirut, struggle to provide for their families in a country that can be hostile against refugees like them, but they maintain hope that there is a way out of their seemingly impossible situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUGKullab, Samya
Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KULWarner, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 WARSummary: After not being able to recall the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the Lebanon War, Ari attempts to unravel the mystery by traveling around the world to interview old friends and comrades. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, his memory begins to return in illustrations that are surreal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYFairuz.
Contents: Beirut hal zarafat / Bechara El Khoury, Rabhani Brothers (6:21) -- Ya mina el habayeb / Rahbani Brother (6:17) -- Amman / Saed Akl, Rahbani Brothers (6:58) -- Al Kuwait (6:02) ; Hamaltu Beirut (8:23) ; Misr adat (8:20) ; Baghdad wal chouarra (9:09) / Rahbani Brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hemisphere 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST FAIGibran, Kahlil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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Contents: From empire to colony: Mount Lebanon and Grand Liban -- The early years: independence and the national pact -- The beginning of nationalism(s) and the emergence of political parties -- The Shehab experiment: the failure of reform -- The forgotten south: Israel and the Palestinians -- Winds of change: the emergence of a sociopolitical opposition -- 1970: the tide turns -- The gathering storm:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monthly Review Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 PETSummary: "A comprehensive biography of the life of artist-poet Kahlil Gibran and his development as an artist transcending geographical boundaries of East and West--includes many rare photographs and images of his work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIBRAN, KHALIL G. GIBSummary: Presents a personal journey in words and images through several Middle Eastern countries including Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, visiting such wonders as Petra, Jerusalem, Istanbul, and the Cedars of Lebanon, and Cappadocia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.604 PROAbi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABIAbirached, 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 ABIHumphrey, John T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humphrey Publications 1996