Story of two women set against a post-war backdrop of 1990s Beirut.
While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds letters, photographs, a diary, and an envelope labeled: Letters from Istanbul.
 The Weight of Paradise is both the story of Maya and her discovery, and also the story of the owner of these papers, Noura Abu Sawwan, a journalist who fled Syria just before the Lebanese civil war to find greater freedom of expression. A multi-voiced, multi-genre narration, it interweaves the stories of these two women and the people who surround them within the fabric of Beirut in the civil war and its immediate aftermath. A love story as well as a story of women s liberation and political freedom, the novel is also the tale of a city and country torn apart by repression, occupation, and war. 
 Wild Mulberries and B as in Beirut are not to be missed. 
 --Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

The Weight of Paradise

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Ḥumaydān, Īmān

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The Weight of Paradise

Ughnīyāt Lil-ʻatmah