A Woman from Beirut: A Novel
(امرأة من بيروت رواية)

Name: A Woman from Beirut: A Novel
Author: Matar, Hind

Title	A Woman from Beirut: A Novel
Title Original	امرأة من بيروت رواية
Author	Matar, Hind
Author Original	مطر، هند
Publication Date:	1443
Publication Place	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Arab House of Science Publishers
Subject	History
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	130
Physical Dimensions	130 صفحة
Library:	University of Minnesota Libraries
Library Asset ID	ISBN: 9786140134058, ISBN: 6140134056
Record ID	cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_368266679
Library Location	Available at TC Wilson Library General Collection (PJ7862.H356 .M38 2022)
Date	1443
Notes	“We dream, achieve, and achieve through our individual efforts in order to reach what we aspire to, and with one storm, what we built in cold blood is destroyed, then we rise again, shake off the dust from our bodies, and rebuild what the violent storm left behind. We begin with determination and a stronger will, because we are a people who do not know despair or surrender. We believe in our competencies and are proud of our culture and our mighty thought. We advance despite the nose of wars, and we will not abandon the glories of the past with its values and pride. We learn, even though we We study by candlelight, which represents patience and steadfastness. We create, despite the flames of sectarianism.” With these words, Hind Matar summarizes her novel “A Woman from Beirut,” which is full of ideas, visions, setbacks, and ambitions. This novel came to tell about the recent contemporary history of “Six Capitals,” Beirut, and the tragedies and sorrows it has witnessed since the Lebanese civil war in 1975 until the disaster of the Beirut port explosion in 2020, so it monitors the political scene. And society through the story of the life of “Jihan,” the heroine of the novel, and the accompanying pain of the Lebanese afflicted in their country suffering under the colors of successive wars and their dreams of stability and safety. Jihan, who was born at the beginning of the war, follows in the footsteps of her father, who is “absent” from her life, “present” in her conscience. She travels to France to study pharmacy, and the dream of reopening her father’s pharmacy in downtown Beirut haunts her. The pharmacy that witnessed the devastation of the city and the sacrifice of her father, the pharmacist, with his life with the outbreak of the first war. “With the spark of the first war, a missile fell on the pharmacy and everyone inside it was martyred, my father and two employees. I was not yet one year old at the time, and I longed for the war from the beginning. I do not remember my father, nor even his features or voice. I did not recognize him as a young man or an old man. That accursed war stole him. I never uttered the word “Papa.” Whenever I missed him, I would stand. In front of his picture hanging on the wall, I look at him for a long time, my heart wrenching with pain at his separation.” --
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A Woman from Beirut: A Novel

(امرأة من بيروت رواية)

Author Matar, Hind

Author Original مطر، هند

Publication Date 1443

Publication Place Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Arab House of Science Publishers

Subject History

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 130

Physical Dimensions 130 صفحة

Library University of Minnesota Libraries

Library Asset ID ISBN: 9786140134058, ISBN: 6140134056

Record ID cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_368266679

Library Location Available at TC Wilson Library General Collection (PJ7862.H356 .M38 2022)

Date 1443

Notes “We dream, achieve, and achieve through our individual efforts in order to reach what we aspire to, and with one storm, what we built in cold blood is destroyed, then we rise again, shake off the dust from our bodies, and rebuild what the violent storm left behind. We begin with determination and a stronger will, because we are a people who do not know despair or surrender. We believe in our competencies and are proud of our culture and our mighty thought. We advance despite the nose of wars, and we will not abandon the glories of the past with its values and pride. We learn, even though we We study by candlelight, which represents patience and steadfastness. We create, despite the flames of sectarianism.” With these words, Hind Matar summarizes her novel “A Woman from Beirut,” which is full of ideas, visions, setbacks, and ambitions. This novel came to tell about the recent contemporary history of “Six Capitals,” Beirut, and the tragedies and sorrows it has witnessed since the Lebanese civil war in 1975 until the disaster of the Beirut port explosion in 2020, so it monitors the political scene. And society through the story of the life of “Jihan,” the heroine of the novel, and the accompanying pain of the Lebanese afflicted in their country suffering under the colors of successive wars and their dreams of stability and safety. Jihan, who was born at the beginning of the war, follows in the footsteps of her father, who is “absent” from her life, “present” in her conscience. She travels to France to study pharmacy, and the dream of reopening her father’s pharmacy in downtown Beirut haunts her. The pharmacy that witnessed the devastation of the city and the sacrifice of her father, the pharmacist, with his life with the outbreak of the first war. “With the spark of the first war, a missile fell on the pharmacy and everyone inside it was martyred, my father and two employees. I was not yet one year old at the time, and I longed for the war from the beginning. I do not remember my father, nor even his features or voice. I did not recognize him as a young man or an old man. That accursed war stole him. I never uttered the word “Papa.” Whenever I missed him, I would stand. In front of his picture hanging on the wall, I look at him for a long time, my heart wrenching with pain at his separation.” --

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