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“As Vice-President for Public Relations, it was inevitable that I should have been called upon to speak about MEA to all kinds of people on all sorts of occasions, particularly during our recent troubles. I have never lost an opportunity to spread the word about MEA, recalling incidents in its colourful history and describing many of the notable people who were, in one way or another, associated with it. But it was not until quite recently that I thought I might try to make a more permanent record, a record that would be partly a factual history of MEA and partly a personal account of my life in MEA…”- Wafic Ajouz

📖Out On A Wing: The Story Of Wafic Ajouz And MEA/ John Munro

🖋️First Edition—1986
🗒173 Pages
📌signed and inscribed by Wafic Ajouz

Flight Against Time is a moving story about the immigrant experience. An elderly couple leave their village in Lebanon to visit their children and grandchildren now living in the new world: Prince Edward Island, Canada. They find a world of peace and great comfort, but despite the war back home, the old man longs for his small village and a way of life deeply etched in his heart.

Nasrallah skilfully weaves truth and imagination to create a story rich in human emotion and psychological insight. The novel stands as witness to a time and its people, a mirror of the whole cultural and historical movement that is Lebanon of the present.

•••Emily Nasrallah (1931–2018), born in Kfeir, South Lebanon, was a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and women’s rights activist. She studied in Beirut and graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in Education. Over her long career, she published novels, short stories, children’s books, and non-fiction exploring Lebanese village life, war, and women’s experiences. Her debut novel Birds of September (1962) won multiple literary awards, and her works have been widely translated and internationally recognized. She is also known as part of the “Beirut decentrists,” writers who remained in Lebanon during the civil war and documented its realities.•••

FLIGHT AGAINST TIME/ Emily Nasrallah

🖋️First English Edition—1987(Ragweed Press)
🗒208 Pages

Pictures Of Lebanon- Traditional views and rarely seen landscapes

Lûbnan- لبنان/ Imprimerie Catholique, Beyrouth- Photo Book

🖋Première Édition—1962
🗒58 Pages + 44 colour plates and a tourist map
📌Arabic- English- French & Spanish

ISRAEL IN LEBANON: The Report of the International Commission to enquire into reported violations of International Law by Israel during its invasion of the
Lebanon

London 28 August 1982 - 29 November 1982

🖋️First edition—1983
🗒282 Pages

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Qu’y a-t-il de plus vulgaire qu’un vulgaire plat de lentilles ?
Mais un plat de lentilles au goût Rayes est un poème.
La cuisine libanaise est aussi fine que variée. Mais personne, jusqu’ici, ne s’était avisé de l’élever au rang d’un art. Il a fallu qu’un fin gourmet en prît enfin la peine.

George N. Rayes, dans un ouvrage qui est le premier de son genre en Orient, L’ART CULINAIRE LIBANAIS, a réuni plus de 500 recettes qui couvrent l’ensemble de la cuisine orientale telle qu’on l’accommode au Liban.

L’ouvrage contient également des préceptes généraux de préparation de plats et de mets de base.
Les recettes Rayes sont celles d’un homme de goût qui a su faire de la table un des plaisirs les plus fins de la vie.

Puisse chacun de nous apprendre, à son école, à apprécier des joies aussi élevées.

René Aggioury

L’art Culinaire Libanais/ Georges N. Rayes

🖋️Première édition française—1957
🗒350 pages

The contribution of the Lebanese diaspora to national life has been remarkable in many fields. However, its role in the film industry has not received enough attention or proper documentation from specialists. This gap in the history of Mexican cinema is addressed through the extensive research carried out by Dr. Carlos Martínez Assad, who presents his findings in an engaging way in this special bilingual edition: Lebanese in Mexican Cinema / Libaneses en el cine mexicano

Names such as Mauricio Garcés, Hermanos Bichir, Gaspar Henaine, and José María Yazpik among actors; Salma Hayek, Johanna Murillo, and María Sorté among actresses; Miguel Zacarías among directors; Antonio Matouk, Mario Zacarías, and Dulce Kuri among producers; Antonio Helú and Rafael Villaseñor among screenwriters; as well as Alfredo Bojalil, Leonora Mar, and Antonio Badú among musicians, plus cinematographer Tufic Yazbek, and many others of Lebanese origin, have contributed greatly both in front of and behind the camera. This book celebrates the contribution of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants who helped shape the collective imagination of Mexican cinema.

Libaneses en el cine mexicano//Lebanese in Mexican Cinema/ Carlos Martínez Assad

🖋️First edition—2018
🗒148 pages

Toufic Youssef Awad, a pioneer in modern novels and short stories, shook the Lebanese and Arab literary scenes with his novel “Al Raghif”, considered a literary revolution. Born in Bahsaf, Lebanon, in 1911, he attended Saida Al Najat School and graduated from St. Joseph University in 1928. Later, he pursued a law degree in Damascus, Syria.

Awad contributed to several newspapers, including Annahar, Dar Al Makchuf, and Al Nidaa. In 1941, he founded his own newspaper, “Al Jadeed”.

Entering the diplomatic service in 1946, he represented Lebanon as a consul and ambassador in various countries, including Japan, Argentina, Iran, Spain, Egypt, Mexico, and Italy.

Upon retiring in 1975, Awad devoted himself to literature, poetry, and research. His notable novels include “Al Raghif” and “Tawahin Beirut”. Among his short stories are “Al Sabe Al Araj”, “Qamees Al Souf” m, and “Al Adhara wa Mataar Al Saqee”.

In his dialogues, he penned “Al Sayyah wal Tarjuman”. His reflections are compiled in “Ghobar Al Ayam”, while his poetry is captured in the collection “Qawafil Al Zaman”.

His novel “Tawahin Beirut” was selected by UNESCO as representative of its era and translated into Russian, English, and German. “Al Sayyah wal Tarjuman” won the Friends of the Book Award for Drama in 1962 and was translated into French.

Awad tragically lost his life in a shelling during the Lebanese Civil War in 1989.

📖قوافل الزمان أو قصائد البيتين/ توفيق يوسف عوّاد

‎🖋️الطبعة الأولى—1973
🗒228 Pages
‎📌اللوحات الفنية بريشة حسين ماضي
العناوين بخط محمد ماجد

les incontournables d’Amin Maalouf réunis dans un seul coffret

•Les croisades vues par les Arabes
•Léon l’Africain
•Samarcande
•Les jardins de lumière

Coédition JC Lattès - FMA

This book explores Palestinian fallahi cross-stitch embroidery, a traditional craft made by village women and used to decorate clothing and household items. It explains how each region developed its own distinct patterns that can often identify specific villages.

The embroidery is shown as a heritage passed from mother to daughter, learned from a young age and used in dresses, wedding clothes, and home textiles. The book also describes how, after war and displacement in the 20th century, women began producing and selling embroidery to support their families.

Overall, it presents fallahi embroidery as both a traditional art form and a symbol of Palestinian cultural identity and continuity.

PALESTINIAN EMBROIDERY: Traditional “Fallahi” cross- stitch/ Widad Kamel and Tania Tamari Nasir in cooperation with Iman Assali Dajani, Hala Tomeh Ibrahim and Farideh Saleh Mayer

🖋️First edition—1992
🗒144 pages

Ce livre remarquable du grand historien de l’Orient est demeuré jusqu’à ce jour le seul ouvrage consacré au destin tragique d’un pays qui, jusqu’à son annexion à l’Empire byzantin, fut l’avant-poste de la civilisation occidentale.

L’Arménie, c’est la nation qui a tenu l’étendard de la culture hellénique, le carrefour où l’Europe et l’Asie se sont rencontrées à travers les siècles. Son histoire est très ancienne et remonte aux âges incertains de la préhistoire. Xénophon, avec ses Dix Mille, est passé par l’Arménie, où il a trouvé une nation prospère, travailleuse, agricole et troglodyte. Tigrane le Grand a lutté longtemps aux côtés de son beau-père Mithridate pour l’indépendance du pays. Il l’a gardée en acceptant le protectorat romain. Au début du quatrième siècle de notre ère, l’Arménie, en acceptant l’Évangile, s’est rangée délibérément du côté de la culture européenne, contre les efforts de dénationalisation des Perses, des Arabes et des Turcs. Au neuvième siècle, l’Arménie s’est ralliée à l’Empire byzantin, tout en gardant son indépendance, jusqu’au moment où Basile II l’annexa et mit fin au long combat des Arméniens pour la défense de leur liberté.

Une page d’histoire racontée brillamment et qui préfigure la lutte d’autres nations pour maintenir leur indépendance et leur souveraineté.

Histoire de l’arménie des origines à 1071/ René Grousset

🖋️Édition—1973
🗒644 pages