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Abbas El-Zein
Abbas El-Zein was born and raised in Beirut. Although he came from a family of religious scholars, he attended a French secular school and studied civil engineering at the American…
Tell the Running Water
…Levantine love song, Abbas El-Zein draws on his own experience of Beirut’s bitter war to create a novel that is elegant and elegiac. This writer has the rarest combination of…
Two excellent reviews of The Secret Maker of the World
It’s great to see two new reviews of Abbas El-Zein’s collection of short stories, The Secret Maker of the World. First up is Portia Lindsay in The Australian: Abbas El-Zein’s…
The Secret Maker of the World
We are very proud and excited to announce the international launch of our first day-and-date title, Abbas El-Zein’s exquisite collection of short stories The Secret Maker of the World. These…
Leave to Remain
by Abbas El-Zein
2009 ·
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genre Memoir
…El-Zein tells his story of growing up in civil-war Beirut, a city in the throes of self-destruction, yet obstinately clinging to its cosmopolitan past. El-Zein traces the genesis of a…
Ignition… Blastoff… Launch!
…release will be Abbas El-Zein’s remarkable collection of short stories, The Secret Maker of the World, which will be published in late February by UQP in Australia and New Zealand…
The Secret Maker of the World
by Abbas El-Zein
2014 ·
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genre Stories
…and a tormentor from the past. A woman searching for her lover through a war zone. Abbas El-Zein’s new collection of stories spans continents and centuries, resting for a moment…