{"product_id":"beirut-fragments-bearing-witness-to-a-war","title":"Beirut Fragments: Bearing Witness to a War","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn impassioned cry against indifference' - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\n'Attains the vividness of a nightmare' - New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Susan Abulhawa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beirut was a city like any other. What happened here could, I think, happen anywhere'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJean Said Makdisi arrived in Beirut as an outsider: a Palestinian refugee who had escaped Jerusalem in 1948 and had grown up across Egypt and America. But in 1975, as Lebanon's capital became the locus of a ferocious civil war, Jean decided to stay. As sectarian violence mounted and the city collapsed around her, she documented it all: the cars that exploded in the street; the high-rise buildings that turned to dust; the museums that became military checkpoints; the bifurcation of the city; and the brutality of the Israeli siege in 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking in the fourteen years of civil war, Makdisi lays bare the violent face of conflict, meticulously documenting its impact on every aspect of civilian life - from the fearsome whistle of shellfire, to the mundanity of queuing for food, to the constant, wandering search for lost loved ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntimate and profound, Beirut Fragments is a heartbreaking memoir of a city under siege and an impassioned defence of collective humanity. With vivid insight and urgency, Makdisi records civilian life brought to its limits and reconstructs the image of a place - and its people - that emerged from the ashes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54008630477168,"sku":"978-1805228745","price":6.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_4336_dd9c3768af.jpg?v=1783580010","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/beirut-fragments-bearing-witness-to-a-war","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}