Limbo Beirut
By: Hilal Chouman ; translated by Anna Ziajka Stanton
Contributors: Stanton, Anna Ziajka, translator
Series: Emerging voices from the Middle East; Emerging voices from the Middle East
Publisher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781477310052
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Politics and government; National liberation movements; Hizballah (Lebanon); Social conflict; Fiction
Work titles: Limbu Bayrut
Description: "In Hilal Chouman's Limbo Beirut, a gay artist, a struggling novelist, a pregnant woman, a disabled engineering student, a former militia member, and a medical intern all take turns narrating the violent events of May 2008, when Hezbollah militants and Future Movement fighters clashed in the streets of Beirut. For most of these young men and women, the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) is but a vague recollection, but the brutality of May 2008 serves to reawaken forgotten memories and stir up fears of a revival of sectarian violence. Yet despite these fears, the violence these characters witness helps them to break free from the mundane details of their lives and look at the world anew"--Back cover.