No Lipstick in Lebanon

No Lipstick in Lebanon

Author: Paul Timblick

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1783521635

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Meron Lemma couldn't know there was a fate worse than wasting away as a poor teenager in the Ethiopian slum where she was born. Desperate to create her own destiny, and drawn by the irresistible possibility of earning real dollars as a maid in Beirut, Meron leaves her devout mother and family behind to join the many other Habesha migrants searching for a better life in the Middle East. Only once there does she realise the ugly truth: instead of opportunity, she has found captivity. Instead of freedom, subordination. Trapped and mistreated by the harsh Madame, Meron lives in constant fear – fear of the daily onslaught of Madame's vicious spite; of her cruel and callous daughters; of the sexual advances of her predatory son; and most of all, fear of losing her sense of self... her Habesha spirit... even her life. Rich in cultural detail and exposing the ongoing, under-reported horrors facing domestic workers in Lebanon today, No Lipstick in Lebanon is a harrowing account of the unremitting hell of modern slavery. Told through the escalating plight of our heroine, this is not just a fictionalised report of one maid's ordeal, but rather the uncovering of a larger issue plaguing a generation of women.


No Lipstick in Lebanon

No Lipstick in Lebanon

Author: P. J. Timblick

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-01-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781494714352

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Her devout mother was firmly against it. But as a teenager drifting through the drudgery of Addis Ababa's slums, the possibility of earning dollars as a maid in Beirut was irresistible. Why shouldn't a poor Ethiopian girl choose her own destiny? Except Meron Lemma had no idea what she was doing. The ugly truth hit Meron as she peered down thirteen storeys to the street below from her tempestuous Beirut penthouse. Trapped and mistreated by the harsh Madame and callous offspring, Meron wondered if she'd return to her mother in a coffin. Was jumping the only escape? Rich with bi-cultural detail, 'No Lipstick in Lebanon' is typical for Ethiopia's domestic servants in Beirut today, succumbing to un-investigated horrors within 'respectable' family homes. Here, through the escalating suspense endured by our heroine, the unremitting Hell of Lebanese servitude is laid bare. 'An amazing story, ' Watson Little Literary Agency 'Heart-wrenching, ' Susijn Literary Agency 'Extraordinary, ' Eve White Literary Agency


The Lebanese Collection

The Lebanese Collection

Author: David Cullen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-05-09

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 0955991188

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THREE FULL-LENGTH NOVELS featuring Captain Jihad Merhi of the Lebanese Internal Security Service and Captain Fadi Lattouf of the Palestinian Civil Police. THE BAALBECK DECISION: What links a series of murders in the Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp with the assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri? Merhi and Lattouf race against time to prevent the event which will change Lebanon forever. THE BYBLOS DISCOVERY: 'Sajida was right' - a cryptic message leads to murders in New York and Lebanon and sends Merhi and Lattouf on a chase to find al-Mahdi. Is the world ready for The Second Coming which could blow the Middle Eastern order apart? THE BEIRUT CONFESSION: As civil war rages in next door Syria, Merhi and Lattouf have to find a spy in the security services - before the spy finds them.


What the War Left Behind

What the War Left Behind

Author: Malek Abisaab

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0815657099

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Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political organizing during the tumultuous conflict. What the War Left Behind documents their stories, with eight women directly sharing their experiences of action and survival through the hardship of war. What the War Left Behind brings together oral histories of women from a range of political affiliations, socioeconomic classes, and religious identities. These histories present an alternative image of women during war, highlighting the actions of those who sought to make life better for themselves and their neighbors during conflict. By centering women’s voices in the war, Abisaab and Hartman present a new perspective on an oft-discussed historical era, demonstrating the power of resistance during difficult times. These translated texts showcase the active roles women take during wartime and how women’s political efforts are an essential part of Lebanese history.


Dreams and Shadows

Dreams and Shadows

Author: Robin B. Wright

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781594201110

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A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region. Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered every country and most major crises in the region since then, through to the rise of al Qaeda and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Dreams and Shadowsis an extraordinary tour de horizon of the new Middle East, with on-the-ground reportage of the ideas and movements driving change across the region-and the obstacles they confront. Through the powerful storytelling for which the author is famous, Dreams and Shadows ties together the players and events in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, the Gulf states, and the Palestinian territories into a coherent vision of what lies ahead.


Wings Of Exile: Portrait of a Lebanese Family

Wings Of Exile: Portrait of a Lebanese Family

Author: Tanya Julien

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0244318301

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Beirut, 1979. A little girl, Carla, listens in fear to the sound of her city's martyr under bombs and shelling. War rages on but people still spend week-ends at the beach, family reunions still take place and everyone is trying to live life to the fullest, as if each moment was the last. The fighting intensifies and it is time to set off for Cyprus, leaving the land of her roots behind. Next move to Belgium, where she discovers Northern Europe and is now clearly in exile. From 1979 to 1996, this is the story of a Lebanese woman's nomadic destiny, like so many, suffering from a never-ending war yet keeping the wildest hopes, the strength of a family fragmented around the world, its traditions, and above all, fantastic resilience and an appetite for life.


The Heart of Lebanon

The Heart of Lebanon

Author: Ameen Rihani

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2021-08-12

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0815655142

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When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the shores of the Mediterranean, to experience and document the land in intimate detail. Through his travelogue The Heart of Lebanon, Rihani brings his readers along by foot and by mule to explore rural villages like his childhood home of Freike, the flora and fauna of massive cedar forests, and archaeological sites that reveal the history of Lebanon. Meeting goatherds, healers, monks, and more along the way, Rihani offers more than vivid descriptions of the country’s sweeping scenery. His candid and often humorous narration captures what he sees as the soul of Lebanon and its people. Allen’s fluid translation transports English-language readers to an early twentieth-century rural Lebanon of the writer’s time in a way that only Rihani’s firsthand account can accomplish.


Writing Beirut

Writing Beirut

Author: Samira Aghacy

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-03-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0748696253

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Presents a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction. This book focuses on the urban/rural divide, the city through panoramic views and pedestrian acts, the city as sexualised and gendered, and the city as a palimpsest. It provides a thorough overview of Beirut in the modern Arabic novel.


Remember Me To Lebanon

Remember Me To Lebanon

Author: Evelyn Shakir

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0815608764

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Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled with Lebanese women of different ages, sometimes writing letters, often reminiscing, looking back as far as the turn of the century. In different ways, these first and second-generation women struggle with feminist issues overshadowed by the demands of dual cultures. In Young Ali a teenager tries to listen to her beloved father’s time-honored tales of males in friendship and marriage. Aggie of House Calls is a deceased matriarch who returns to haunt her family with reminders of the customs she fought to uphold while alive. Shakir’s other heroines include a thrice-divorced thirty-year-old woman quibbling with a modern matchmaker, an elderly non-Lebanese woman who spies on Muslim neighbors in the wake of 9/11, and a traditional wife and mother who thinks she has found a route out of Old World womanly duties. Many of the authors’s women grapple with reclaiming or abandoning ancestral demands, and finessing age-old male-female relationships. In Oh, Lebanon a war-haunted Lebanese-born woman willfully departs from the mores of her upbringing, with surprising results. With agile humor and emotional truth, Shakir offers multiple perspectives on Lebanese women trying to change roles in a new landscape without surrendering cultural identity.