Ghada al-Samman

Beirut Nightmares

Stories depicting existential dread in wartime Beirut

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Ghada al-Samman

Syrian novelist and journalist known for her surrealist, politically charged fiction about Arab women and the trauma of war. Beirut Nightmares, set during the Lebanese Civil War, is her most internationally recognized work.

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