Makdisi/Beirut Fragments

Abstract: A 5 page book report that examines and discusses the memoir, Beirut Fragments, in which author Jean Said Makdisi records what it was like to live in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, during that country's long civil war, which was still being fought when her book was published. Her text offers intriguing insight into what it is like to live in the midst of a city divided by conflict and sectarian violence. Her account is varied and touches on a number of different aspects of her experience, but it is also interesting because of what Makdisi leaves out, as well as for what she includes. In discussing this aspect of the book, the writer relates the memoir to the history provided by Elaine Hagopian. No additional sources cited.

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