Movies like Bayrnt al-liqa' [Beirut, the Encounter], Jocelyne Saab's Glwzl al-banat (1985 [English-language Title: Suspended Life]), Kan ya ma knn
Bayrut (1984 [English-language Title: Once Upon a Time, Beirut]), Hors la vie (Baghdadi 1991 [English-language Title: Out of Life]), and Bayriit al-gharibah (Doueiri 1998 [English-language Title: West Beirut]) view analog technology as part of the experience of war, a technology of war.
Tafsir al-Munir fil Aqidati wal Shariahti wal Manhaj, 2nd edition,
bayrut: darul Fikr al-Muasarah.
after 1436), Tarikh Bayrut, Akhbar al-Salaf min Dhurriyat Buhtur ibn 'Ali Amir al-Gharb bi-Bayrut, ed.
(17) Salih ibn Yahya, Tarikh Bayrut, 214; Fuess, Verbranntes Ufer, 382-383.
Ibrahim has published other novels since then, including Najmat Aghustus (1974),
Bayrut,
Bayrut (1984), Dhat (1992), and Sharaf (1997)--all politically engaged texts critical of contemporary Egyptian and Arab regimes and their coercive institutions and repressive practices.
Victoria, in the Mediterranean and narrowly avoided death when Camperdown rammed and sank Victoria in maneuvers off Beirut (
Bayrut) (June 22, 1893); continued to serve in the Mediterranean on H.M.S.
(33.) Salih ibn Yahya, Ta'rikh
Bayrut: Recits des anciens de lafamille de Buhtur b.
Roger Allen's succinct introduction to the novelistic world of Ibrahim al-Kawni in the context of other treatments of the desert in modern Arabic fiction, and Sabah Ghandour's analysis of competing discourses in Tawfiq 'Awwad's well-known novel Tawahin
Bayrut offers inspiration to, and material for, the teacher of contemporary Arabic fiction.
Thus, in Jaber's novels, in an obvious use of the mise en abyme technique, a journalist who is also a creative writer and who is sometimes called "Rabee" appears in Ralf Rizqallah fi-l-mir'at (Ralf Rizqallah in the Mirror, 1997), al-Vtirafat (Confessions, 2008), the trilogy
Bayrut: Madinat al-'alam (Beirut: City of the World, 2003, 2005, 2007), Biritus: Madina taht al-ard (Biritus: An Underground City, 2005).
(21.) Beirut: Dar
Bayrut and Dar Sadir, 1958, 1: 83-84.
(43.) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamilfi l-ta'rlkh (Beirut: Dar Sadir and Dar
Bayrut, 1965); Ibn Khaldun, 'Ibar, 4: 636-52; al-MaqrizI, Kitab al-Khitat (Beirut: Dar Ihya' aI-'Ulum, 1959), 2: 90-103; idem, al-Muqajfa (Beirut: Dar al-Gharb al-Islaml, 1991), 2: 446-51; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-zahira (Cairo: al-Mu'assasa al-Misriyya al-cAmma li-1-Ta'llfwa-l-Tarjamawa-l-Tiba'awa-l-Nashr, 1929-1972), 3: 1-49.
