- Tawfīq Yūsuf ʿAwwād (1911 – 1989, Lebanon) – Ṭawāḥīn Bayrūt (1972, English trans. Death in Beirut, 1976). When Tamīmah, a southern Lebanese Shiite girl visits her law-studying brother in Beirut, she ends up meeting Hānī, a Maronite Christian activist. They become lovers, and after she enrols in the university in Beirut she herself becomes an active member of the student political movement (reference). Having both moved from the rural countryside to the city, their story reflects on the different dimensions of the political and social changes in Lebanon, specifically in cosmopolitan Beirut, as well as on how regional developments influenced the student movement in the years just before the start of the Civil War in 1975 (also in C: Cities: Lebanon: Beirut and L: Love Lust, and Relationships: Inter-religious and ethnic (romantic) relationships: Between Muslims and Christians).
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- EAL, p. 115