- Rabīaʿ Jābir (1972-, Lebanon) – Taqrīr Mīhlīs (2006, English trans. The Mehlis Report, 2013). This novel focuses on the United Nations (UN) investigation into Rafik Hariri’s death by a car explosion. The result of this investigation, the Mehlis report, named after the German Judge on the case Detlev Mehlisto, is awaited on by the whole Lebanese population, including the hero of the novel, Samʿān. Samʿān is a middle-aged architect who wanders around in Beirut looking for answers to the assassination. In the meanwhile, his sister Yūsafīn, who died during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to him from the mysterious Beirut underworld of the dead where eventually Hariri also appears (also in P: Police novels, Thrillers and Crimes: (Police) Investigations).
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