"When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon and bombing in Beirut grows closer, her neighbors create a comfortable world indoors for Zeina and her brother. This expanded edition features a new, illustrated afterword"--Provided by publisher.
"Lebanon is home to the bustling Mediterranean city of Beirut-one of the oldest cities in the world that has been constantly inhabited. It's also home to rugged mountains and magnificent cedar trees. Readers will learn how the migration of peoples and different empires throughout history have shaped the culture of the people who live there today. This book explores the religions, arts, and cuisine of Lebanon through exciting text, and fact-filled sidebars. Vibrant photographs from around the country will bring readers up close to life in Lebanon"--.
Toma and Malek, two thirteen-year-old Syrian children living in Beirut, struggle to provide for their families in a country that can be hostile against refugees like them, but they maintain hope that there is a way out of their seemingly impossible situation.
Zeina Abirached relates her memories in graphic format of the war between the Muslims and the Christians that happened in her hometown of Beirut, Lebanon during the 1980s.
Thirteen-year-old Hadi Toma and his family are displaced. At least that s what the Lebanese government calls them and the thousands of other Syrian refugees that have flooded into Beirut. But as Hadi tries to earn money to feed his family by selling gum on the street corner, he learns that many people who travel the city don t think they re displaced--they think that they don t belong in this country either.
Zeina Abirached, a woman born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981 during the civil war in Lebanon, reflects on her childhood, the disappearance of her parents, and the help and protection she received from neighbors.
Ari Folman's life becomes a nightmare when he sets out to reconstruct the events of one night twenty years earlier when, as an Israeli soldier in September 1982, he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Christian militia members at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.
