Akashic Noir: Beirut Noir (Paperback)

from freckles1987

This collection of Lebanese stories in translation (some from French, some Arabic, some were originally written in English) provides a wide array of dark tales. The Civil War is a common theme throughout all of the pieces. The mysteries are often tangled up with mystical threads, lending a very g...

from BradKautz

Beirut Noir is a collection of short stories in the Noir series published by Akashic Books. The stories were originally written in French, English or Arabic and all are set within the city of Beirut. Given their geographic setting, the Lebanese civil war, which engulfed the city from 1975-90, loo...

from kara.shamy

NOTE: This review contains the names of all authors featured in this short story collection. In my experience browsing similar books online, this valuable information is not prominently displayed. As a reader with a strong interest in exploring Lebanese and other Arabic literature in [English] tr...

from Topazshell

This is an anthology of stories written by different Lebanese authors. As no surprise, these war stories were, at times, painful to read. However, some stories were poetic. There is the mention of numbers, the soul, dolls and numbers. Beirut is also seen as a "companion of death" and as the "city...

from bayleaf

Beirut Noir is the most disappointing edition in the Akashic noir series I have read so far. I found the stories to be extremely inaccessible and this is after I did some research into the wars that have torn the city apart. Iman Humaydan's introduction is excellent, but only went so far in actin...