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Stories and scenes from Mount Lebanon / Mahmoud Khalil Saab ; translated from the Arabic by Tammam Abushakra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ṣaʻb, Maḥmūd Khalīl.
- Standardized Title:
- Qiṣaṣ wa-mashāhīd min jabal Lubnān. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990.
- Lebanon.
- History.
- Lebanon--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Saqi, 2004.
- Summary:
- Originally published in Arabic less than a year after the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, this is the first English translation of Mahmoud Khalil Saab's "Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon." Saab's meticulously narrated stories and accounts of people and events in the "small beautiful country," as he liked to describe his native land, convey the character of life in Lebanon as only someone who experienced it can do. Saab traveled around the country by car to interview people who had lived events or heard of them from their elders. Reading his work, it is clear that his central purpose was to preserve for posterity the narratives he had witnessed and heard during his lifetime, feeling that if they went unrecorded they might be lost forever and with them the values they relate. Anyone with an interest in the values, customs, and heritage of the people of Lebanon, and particularly the Druze, will want to read this book.
- Contents:
- Rulers and Battles 27
- Shaykh Bashir Jumblatt and Shaykh Sej'aan al-Khazen 29
- Al-Sit Hbous Arslan 31
- The Battle of Wadi Baka 43
- Shaykh Youssef Abd al-Malik and Abu al-Mona Bashir Abu al-Mona 51
- Fouad Abu Ghanem at al-Mokhallis Monastery 55
- Amir Mustafa Arslan 59
- Amir Shakib Arslan and Fares Alameh 65
- Choueifat Enters the First World War 72
- The War between France and the al-B'eini Clan 79
- Fouad Beik Hamzeh (1901-1952) 83
- Strength and Virility 93
- Ali Hassan al-Hajj 95
- Fares Shdid al-Jureidini 103
- Shahin Abd al-Salam Abu Faraj 110
- Salim Qassem Saab 115
- Shaykh Nasif Nakad and Elias al-Haddad 119
- Fatima 122
- Shaykh Muhammad Atallah 125
- Taqtaq 131
- Manly Escapades 135
- Amshe al-Qontar 137
- Khattar Beik al-'Imad and Ali Nou'man Abu Shaqra 142
- Najmeh of the Heroes 145
- Amir Milhem Arslan and Mansour Ahmad Saab 151
- The Three Musketeers 156
- Hamad Muhsin al-Ayyash and Saeed Muhammad Daw 160
- Khalil Mahmoud Saab and Misbah al-Marakibji 163
- Hobeish Police Station in Beirut 169
- Sharafeddine Abu Khozam and Najib Halloum 173
- Knowledge, Principles and Moral Deeds 177
- Bechara al-Khouri, the Jurist 179
- Shahin Salman 182
- Hassan Zeineddine Abd al-Khaliq and Milhem Ali Hassan 187
- 'Izzeddine Najem Shehayyeb and Ibrahim Shayya 192
- The Raydan Clan 195
- Ali 'Izzeddine Abd al-Khaliq, Jibrail Mishrik al-Haddad and Muhammad Mahmoud 202
- Nasib Beik al-Atrash, Fad'a Saab and Najib Beik Trad 207
- Father Tanious Saad 212
- Jirjis al-Murr, Khalil Saab and Amin Zaka 217
- Youssef Karam and Mariam Saad 220
- Shaykh Abu Nassereddine Hussein al-Faqih and the Needy Thief 222
- Ahmad Abdallah Saab 225
- Tanious Zeina and Ali Mahmoud Saab 230
- Beliefs and Religious Morals 233
- Shaykh Abu Zeineddine Youssef Abu Shaqra 235
- Qassem S'eifan and his wife Hind 238
- Nassif Beik Talhouq and 'Izzeddine Shehayyeb 241
- Hassan Serhal Abu Shaqra and Mahmoud Youssef Saab 247
- Shaykh Nasib Makarem and George Shirer 252
- Taufiq al-Zein and Elias Najm 258
- Anecdotes 261
- The Delayed Death 263
- Better to be a Shaykh than a Pasha 266
- Amir Mustafa Arslan and Suleiman Jumblatt Abu Hassan 270
- Amir Mustafa Arslan, Shaykh Khalil al-Khouri and Khalil Qassem Saab 272
- Nasib Beik Jumblatt and Shahin Muhammad Nader al-Jurdi 275
- Amir Sami Arslan and Hassan Wehbeh al-Khishin 278
- Qizhayya al-Nakouzi and the Five Pine Trees 282
- Shibil Ghostin and Milad Salameh 284
- Scenes 289
- Al-Naqqash 291
- Akhwat Shanay 298
- Horsemanship 306
- Wild Animals in Lebanon 312
- Snow on the Coasts 316
- Saabisms 323
- The Saab Family in Choueifat 325
- The Magic Turns on the Magician 329
- The Cutting Proof 331
- The Reawakening of Blood 332
- The Pride of Youth 333
- A Killing Postponed 335
- Flour Trading 337
- Sultan Abdel Hamid 339
- Trustworthy People 341
- Scenes of Dignity 348.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0863565700
- OCLC:
- 56082775
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