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Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir
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Capturing both the terror and the quiet efforts to preserve ordinary life amid overwhelming instability, Jean Said Makdisi’s memoir paints a vivid portrait of the courage required to stay in a city where war threatens everything you hold dear.
A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one's place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.
Jean Said Makdisi-Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said-has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon i...
Jean Said Makdisi-Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said-has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon i...
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