![]() Hanan Sbaiti traces the progression of personal destruction/construction and disempowerment/empowerment through which the narrator in Ghada Samman's Beirut Nightmares passes as a result of the isolation experienced during non-stop aggressive fighting. Instead of chapters, the novel progresses through 151 episodes that the author labels “Nightmare 1” and so on which are sometimes hallucinations, at other times actual nightmares, and still other times, realities nightmarish in nature. ![]() Her only companions are her neighbors: an old man and his son, as well as their male servant. Her novel Beirut Nightmares tells the story of a woman who is holed up in her house at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war in 1975. Ghada Samman is a Syrian writer who lived in Beirut.
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