{"product_id":"beirut-fragments-a-war-memoir","title":"Beirut Fragments A War Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jean Said Makdisi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Random House, 2026-07-14\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one’s place in the world, named a 1989 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Said Makdisi—Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said—has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1989, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of the early 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival—shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life—told with a storyteller’s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at the local university, she renders both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Profound, heartbreaking…Makdisi’s…words [are] worth listening to, and her faith in humanity worth emulating.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An impassioned cry against indifference.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47261662052521,"sku":"PHBK-9780385552271","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/6860963482325.jpg?v=1783982067","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/beirut-fragments-a-war-memoir","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}