- Fawzī Dhubyān (?, Lebanon) – Ūrwīl fī al-Ḍāḥiyah al-Junūbiya (‘Orwell in the southern neighbourhoods’, 2017). After Hezbollah takes control over water in a neighborhood in Southern Beirut, Ḥammūdī is forced out of his door-to-door water selling business. He starts to sell water pipes (shisha’s) for a company instead and through describing his contacts with colleagues and clients the novel describes the political, social, and religious activities in the neighborhood. It also depicts the life of the marginalized workers in the neighborhood while referencing George Orwell’s 1984 (reference) (also in C: Cities: Lebanon: Beirut).
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- Maḥmūd Ḥusnī. 2017. “‘Ūrwīl fī al-Ḍāḥiyah al-Junūbiya’… Siyāq Tajrībī li-Ṣakhab Idiyūlūjī.” www.rommanmag.com, 11 May 2017, https://rommanmag.com/view/posts/postDetails?id=3764 (last accessed 30 November 2021)