Beirut Fragments

This book is an act of witness and an act of love – susan abulhawa, author of MORNINGS IN JENIN
Beirut Fragments attains the vividness of a nightmare * The New Yorker *
Coruscatingly vivid, forensically precise, and emotionally profound – Laleh Khalili, author of EXTRACTIVE CAPITALISM and HEROES AND MARTYRS OF PALESTINE
Evokes Beirut, eviscerated by war, with profound insight and compassion – Matthew Teller, author of NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM
A call to understand and a call to hope… Beirut Fragments stands out – Louise Kennedy, author of TRESPASSES
A homage to Lebanon’s capital and its inhabitants… it reads like current events * Middle East Eye *
Unearths the mundanity of violence with a singlular unsparing prose – Lola Olufemi, author of FEMINISM, INTERRUPTED
Stunning and forensic, witnessing everyday life in the midst of siege… lays bare the futility of war and the hideousness of senseless violence – Tareq Baconi, author of FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION
Mesmerising, heartbreaking and urgent… needed now more than ever. Makdisi’s love for Beirut and its people is palpable. – Priscilla Morris, author of BLACK BUTTERFLIES
An impassioned cry against indifference * New York Times *
A profound, heartbreaking book * Los Angeles Times *
Makdisi’s concern is to convey with acuity the feeling of being trapped as history happens to you * Bookforum *
A beautifully crafted memoir… the first detailed account by a civilian of daily life in the cockpit of the Middle East war * Publishers Weekly *
Beirut Fragments, like a eulogy, staggers sharply down Beirut’s bombed-out streets, pausing for moments of doleful lyricism, numbness, and rage… an angry and sometimes hopeful homage to the Beirutis who stayed despite the exceptional carnage * The Village Voice *
A rare insider’s view of a tragic and protracted conflict * Kirkus Reviews *
Praise for Jean Said Makdisi: Makdisi’s beautifully crafted, honest memoir is a story that does not so much revolve around Lebanon as pass through it, only to eventually build a home within it * Guardian *

Jean Said Makdisi is a Palestinian writer and scholar. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir Teta, Mother and Me and the editor of Arab Feminisms and My Life in the PLO. She lives in Beirut.

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