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From many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven ...
Elias Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1948. Editor in Chief of the cultural pages of the daily newspaper Al-Nahar and professor of Arabic literature at New York University, he is the author of eleven novels. In 2000, he was awarded the most prestigious Palestinian literary prize for Gate of the Sun. Elias Khoury is regarded as one of the best Arabic writers of his generation.
From many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven years, Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga, putting human faces to a political ...