Abbas El-Zein

A story of survival, and a meditation on desire and loss, language and violence Winner of the 2024 University of QLD Non Fiction Book Award 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...