Lebanon: through writers' eyes

Organisation: Eland Publishing

Time: 24 November 2009 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Place: Daunt Books, 158-164 Fulham Road, London SW10 9PR

Eland Publishing invites you to the launch of:

Lebanon: through writers' eyes

By Ted and Andrée Féghali Gorton

Lebanon has fallen prey to the rapacious appetites of most of the world's greatest powers and vestiges of these transient civilisations are still there: Phoenician tombs and Roman temples, Gothic castles, venerable mosques and churches all jostling for attention. The Lebanese themselves bear genetic witness to this history: dozens of ethnic and religious groups coexist uneasily, hemmed in between mountains and sea, stubbornly defending their rites and traditions in a mosaic-like society where politics informs religion and vice versa. Violence, beauty, poetry, struggle, humour, and occasional examples of inspiring inter-cultural harmony, and bigotry, are all reflected through these writers' eyes.

Including: T. E. Lawrence, Colin Thubron, Khalil Gibran, Hester Stanhope, Homer.

The passages have been selected and presented by Ted Gorton and Andree Féghali Gorton

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