Rashid al-Daif

This “novelized biography” by Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif and pointed riposte by German novelist Joachim Helfer demonstrate how attitudes toward sex and masculinity across cultural contexts are intertwined with the work of fiction, thereby highlighti

This novel by one of Lebanon’s best-known authors offers an intimate look at evolving attitudes toward virginity, premarital sex, and abortion in Lebanon as it draws a compelling portrait of a disintegrating marriage.

This novel deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style.