5 Books To Make You Fall In Love With Beirut — theculturetrip.com

Enter your writing to The Culture Trip Award & you could win $3,000! #tctaward We are offering a $3,000 prize for a student or recent graduate whose article on The Culture Trip attains the highest readership within 3 months of publication, $2,000 for the second most-read article and $1,000 for the third most-read article. Beirut is first and foremost a city of love and no one tells a tragic love story quite like Gibran Khalil Gibran. The Broken Wings takes you to a vibrant Beirut at the turn of the 20th century, where the young narrator falls in love with the betrothed daughter of the illustrious Ferris Effendi. Written in the first person, the poetic prose uses everyday Arabic colloquialisms and paints an accurate image of Beirut and the prevalent social issues of the time, encompassing religious and social divides, women’s rights and the elusiveness of happiness. Despite the fact that it remains unknown whether this story of clandestine love is actually Gibran’s own, his intimate descriptions of Beirut’s neighborhoods, alleys, and smells will take you back in time and make you fall in love with the city as he saw and knew it.

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