Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country’s civil war clearly in his mind’s eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author

November the 12th, 2007, by Jasmina Najjar, from iLoubnan.info   Welcome to the world of Rashid al-Daif. Entering this realm is challenging but extremely rewarding. Rashid al-Daif, was born in 1945 in the Northern Lebanese town of Zgharta.

From Banipal, 2008 Sometimes the unexpected can prompt a meltdown; a tiny notice in the newspaper’s police notebook of the murder and burial of our narrator’s father three days earlier frames the novel. Learning English begins with this accidental announcement and ends with the arrival of the narrator at the village in a taxi.

جريدة النهار 5 أيار 2008   في جمع من الأصدقاء، وبدعوة من “دار رياض الريس للنشر”، وقّع رشيد الضعيف مؤلفه الجديد “أوكي مع السلامة” في اجواء حميمية كما مضمون روايته التي سعى في سطورها الى جعل النص مشوقا وواقعيا وممتعا في الوقت نفسه. حكايته حكاية علاقة بين الراوي، وهو المؤلف نفسه، وطالبة جامعية اسمها هامة، […]