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Beirut Fragments - Jean Said Makdisi & Angela Flournoy

By Jean Said Makdisi & Angela Flournoy

Release Date: 2026-07-14

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on oneā€™s place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.

Jean Said Makdisiā€”Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Saidā€”has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanonā€™s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survivalā€”shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family lifeā€”told with a storytellerā€™s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.

Amid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, Beirut Fragments offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.

Beirut Fragments - Jean Said Makdisi & Angela Flournoy

By Jean Said Makdisi & Angela Flournoy

Release Date: 2026-07-14

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on oneā€™s place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.

Jean Said Makdisiā€”Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Saidā€”has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanonā€™s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survivalā€”shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family lifeā€”told with a storytellerā€™s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.

Amid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, Beirut Fragments offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.

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