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Stories Set in Lebanon
Phoenician ports, civil-war checkpoints, Gibran verses and Beirut salons — small country, layered stories. Start with these ten, then open Lebanon on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 50 books and 36 movies set in Lebanon.

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.

Waltz with Bashir
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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.

Al Hayba: The Movie
The murderer of Jabal’s father is spotted alive in Bulgaria. Jabal heads a fierce hunt passing by Bulgaria and Istanbul. With the aim to bring Nazem back to justice to Al Hayba village.

Where Do We Go Now?
On a remote isolated unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country the women in the…

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…
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