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Synopsis
This disturbing and yet beautiful memoir, written by a courageous housewife, places us inside something we seldom think about – domestic survival during civil war. A Beirut Heart imposes upon the reader a haunting metaphor about how the tragic destruction of a great city can be paralleled in the psyche of even the most resilient of its inhabitants.
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About the Author
A native of Washington, D.C., Cathy Sultan and her family survived the wars in Lebanon from the mid-seventies to the early eighties. The experience left her with a mind-broadening education about the realities of Middle East politics, which she hauntingly depicts in her 2005 memoir A Beirut Heart: One Woman’s War. and in her recounting of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Tragedy in South Lebanon. Her first novel, The Syrian, a political thriller, was published in 2014. She continues to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in so doing hopes, through her writing and activism, to help forge peace in the region. Sultan currently sits on the Board of Directors of Interfaith Peace Builders. She lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with her husband.
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- PublisherCalumet Editions
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1939548322
- ISBN 13 9781939548320
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages264
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