Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | DS 89 .B4 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5192383 |
DS 87.65 .A79 2016 Democracy in Lebanon : political parties and the struggle for power since Syrian withdrawal / | DS 87.65 .S728 2010 Letters to Dalia : reflections on Lebanon and the Middle East / | DS 87.67 .H57 2010 Beware of small states. ; Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East / | DS 89 .B4 2009 Beirut, I love you : a memoir / | DS 89 .B4 .H36 2005 Beirut / | DS 89 .B4 K3813 2010 Beirut / | DS 89.B4 L44 2014 Beirut / |
This is the story of Zena, a young woman who finds herself under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief, alcohol, Prozac and love affairs. In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the city. Refugees sleep five to a bed as bleach-blondes with matching nose jobs wend their way to the next drug-fuelled supernightclub. At any moment, the bombs will start falling. Meanwhile, Zena and her best friend Maya must try to make sense of their lives amidst the craziness, and negotiate the city’s many obsessions including cosmetic surgery, husband hunting and Kalashnikovs. As honest as it is forgiving, this artist’s memoir pits love and art against the ever present threat of war.
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