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  title info:
    title: Bullet, paper, rock
    sub title: a memoir of words and wars
  name:
    name part: El-Zein, Abbas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wea
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound, either tragic or amusing, sometimes both, between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, with English coming fast from behind. By the time he graduated from high school, El-Zein had nearly drowned in the Mediterranean, survived the breakout of civil war and lived through the violent death of two close family members. He witnessed Syrian and Israeli soldiers invade his country and, from his bedroom balcony, saw the mushroom cloud of the explosion that killed hundreds of American and French marines. But while war and tragedy struck every now and then, everyday life continued unabated, rich with humor, serendipity and love of many kinds. Bullet Paper Rock is a story of survival, and a meditation on desire and loss, language and violence. It is at one a requiem for a Levantine past gone sour, from the innocent 1970s, through September 11 and its aftermath, to the cataclysms of the Arab Spring and a tribute to women of his family, "weavers whose fabric of choice is hope, they were hard at work, at night as in daytime, carving out viable lives, ones in which they loed and were loved aplenty."
  note: Abbas El-Zein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: El-Zein, Abbas
  subject:
    topic: Arabs
    geographic: Lebanon
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Arabs
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Muslim diaspora
  subject:
    topic: Muslims
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Muslim families
    geographic: Lebanon
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Loss (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Arab-Israeli conflict
  subject:
    topic: War and society
    geographic: Middle East
  classification: DS87.2.E49 B85 2024
  classification: 297.092
  identifier: 9780645874532
  identifier: 0645874531
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240104
    record change date: 20250604194601.4
    record identifier: in00005530263