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Georgia Makhlouf: This book made me become a feminist writer

The Franco-Lebanese novelist's latest book, "Pays Amer" ("Bitter Country"), intertwines the lives, a century apart, of two female photographers in Lebanon.

Georgia Makhlouf: This book made me become a feminist writer

Georgia Makhlouf, an author filled with a delicate melancholy. (Credit: Matthias Cheval)

In "Pays Amer" ("Bitter Country"), a fiction freely inspired by the life of Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983), author Georgia Makhlouf takes her readers from Beirut in the wake of the 2020 Port explosion, where Mona, a young marginalized photographer,...
In "Pays Amer" ("Bitter Country"), a fiction freely inspired by the life of Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983), author Georgia Makhlouf takes her readers from Beirut in the wake of the 2020 Port explosion, where Mona, a young marginalized photographer,...