Beirut Fragments
A War Memoir
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Beirut Fragments
Narrated by:
Liana Bdéwi, Jean Said Makdisi
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Narrated by:
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Liana Bdéwi
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Jean Said Makdisi
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 in 1982.
At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival—shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life—told with a storyteller’s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.
Amid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, Beirut Fragments offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.
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Critic reviews
“First published in 1990, this powerful memoir is now being reissued for a new generation of readers at another particularly poignant time in our history….[Beirut Fragments] provides a nuanced, layered look into life during war.” —Ms. Magazine
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