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Stories Set in Beirut
Beirut is a Mediterranean port city of corniche, hills and rebuilt souks. The civil war from 1975 to 1990 split it along the Green Line and left sectarian divisions, so stories return to crowded apartments, memory and dark humor. Capernaum and The Insult carry that reckoning. Open Beirut on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 26 books and 16 movies set in Beirut.
Capernaum
Zain a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
The Insult
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
From Beirut to Jerusalem
This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the…
Beirut
In 1980s Beirut Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile a CIA field agent who is…
Caramel
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes fears and expectations.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship they find…
The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of…
American Assassin
Mitch Rapp is a gifted college athlete who just wants retribution for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. He trains six months intensely with other clandestine operatives, under CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield and…
Our Happy Holiday
Marion and Ben thirty years old meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the…
West Beirut
In April 1975 civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school making Super 8 movies with his friend Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed the violence is…
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