Nightmares Beirut

Author's name: Ghada Al-Samman Publisher: Ghada Al-Samman Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Beirut nightmares novel 197 In it, the author monitors the atmospheres of Beirut during the eruption of the Lebanese civil war crisis, as well as the conditions of intellectuals, politicians, and ordinary people, where the smell of gunpowder and corruption suffocates the noses, as political, financial, and monopolistic debauchery blend with sexual debauchery in a melting pot of human corrupt atmosphere. It also penetrates into the folds and corners of the daily lives of ordinary individuals living their lives amidst the chaos of events, unconcerned with the fate of an entire homeland. The novel documents a nervous phase during which the civil war tore apart human relationships that had no real roots. Fire devours everything in this city that once danced to the rhythm of falling shells and rockets.