Transit Beirut : New Writing and Images
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By Malu Halasa, Roseanne Saad Khalaf (Editors) 'Bewildering, enchanting, at times exasperating, Transit Beirut conveys a din of contending vignettes and sensations. Yet the effect on the reader is far from transitory, and the lessons all too salutary.' The Independent 'It is very Lebanese - simultaneously profound and sentimental ... the glimpses of personal histories are moving - the banality of the atrocities, the acceptance of a way of life, but above all, the creative resilience of the people of Beirut.' TLS 'Informative and daring ... a welcome manifestation of people meeting ideas and ideas meeting each other.'The Daily Star (29/01/04) 'Perhaps this city is not so very dissimilar from the one you know, except that it's set a little closer to the bombs, a little closer to Israel ...' Pulp.net (07/04/04) 'Transit Beirut is testimony to the adaptability and vitality of the Lebanese.' Saudi Gazette (30/03/04) '... entertaining and challenging ... Reminders of conflict run like leitmotifs throughout Transit Beirut's 21 essays, poems and short stories.' The Middle East '[An] extremely attractive, well-designed book ... a virtual kaleidescope of mental and landscape-bound images ... thoughtful and powerful.' Jordan Times 'funny, dark, heartbreaking and optimistic by turns ... great for the coffee table' Red Pepper Read an article here about Transit Beirut's contributors Beirut - where plastic surgery meets the emotional intensity of the legendary diva Umm Kulthum, and Lebanese foodies go on the rampage. Transit Beirut is a unique anthology of complex urban experience that brings together personal writing, essays, journalism, short stories, photography and animation. The view is wide: from fiction to documentary, and everything in between. Beirut is undergoing an energetic process of rediscovery and reinvention by its own inhabitants, many of whom are only now returning to the city. With new and established Arab writers together for the first time, Transit Beirut oscillates between sarcastic humour and serious exploration of the tensions and conflicts in a society undergoing reconstruction. Things are never what they seem; students express themselves in the language of military conquest and athletes train to 'defeat' cholesterol. Here TE Lawrence, Orientalism and a PLO grandmother's revolutionary milk interweave ... Contributors: Leila M, Hasan Daoud, Dalia Khamissy, Nabeel Kaakoush, Abbas El-Zein, Ghassan Halwani, Reine Mahfouz, Malu Halasa, Zeina B Ghandour, Hazim Saghie, Nabil Ismail, Kamal Kassar, Nadine RL Touma, Lena Merhej, Omar Sabbagh, Roseanne Saad Khalaf, Fadi Tufayli, Antoine Boulad, Rachid El Daif, Maher Kassar, Ziad Halwani. Malu Halasa has been writing about the Near and Middle East for the Guardian and other publications since the 1990s. She helped to found Tank magazine and was it's features editor for four years. Roseanne Khalaf is an assistant professor in the English Department and coordinator of creative writing at the American University of Beirut. Language: English ISBN: 0863565689 2004, Paperback, 250 pages, 8.0" x 8.0"