Ghādah Sammān

A Farewell to Damascus is both a paean to a beloved homeland, and an ode to human dignity.

Farewell Damascus

بیروت ٧٥

Interviews previously published during the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

استجواب متمردة

Ghadah Samman

In Lebanon during the war, the lives of five strangers brought together by a communal taxi ride. The protagonists include a woman who gives up teaching in a convent to become a man's mistress, an unemployed individual who becomes a thief, and a fisherman who wants his son to stop studying and enter the family business.

A Novel

Beirut '75

غادة السمان

الابدية لحظة حب

Essays om samfund, ligestilling, ytringsfrihed m.m.

تسكع داخل جرح

fasīfasāʼ Dimashqīyah : riwāyah

al-Riwāyah al-mustaḥīlah

al-Aʻmāl ghayr al-kāmilah: al-Jasad ḥaqībat safar

Marking collisions of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the modern European world and a Gothic strata of the supernatural. The resultant mix sparks tensions between the sexes, between identities, and between experimental forms of storytelling and strict narrative. In Samman's fiction, matchmakers still come to call, but lovers go bungee jumping. A schizophrenic has a discussion with one of his personalities about murder and relationships with women. Avoiding ghosts both real and imagined, a war exile confronts class structure; the art of Paris; and the trials of being a woman, an Arab, and a writer in a country and culture not her own. The spirit of a strangled lover tells the story of his murder and of the web of love, beauty, lust, and loathing that brought about his demise.

Supernatural Tales

The Square Moon

Beirut Nightmares is set at the height of the Lebanese Civil War. The narrator, trapped in her flat for two weeks by street battles and sniper fire, writes a series of vignettes peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, some drawn from the amazing waking world and others living only in the sleeping minds of those suffering in the conflict.

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