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Carl Gibeily was born in
Lebanon in 1966. After school in Beirut, he read engineering at Cambridge.
He has worked as an engineer in South Africa, a sales rep in Dubai, a journalist
for various regional publications in Beirut and an editor with the United Nations.
He is currently working on his next novel and now lives in Edinburgh with his wife
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March Dust |
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Separated by the wall across the West Bank,
two families and two worlds collide when an Israeli youth, Aron's son, is killed by a
Palestinian youth, Imm Nidal's son. But Aron uncovers several inconsistencies in the official
report of his son's death and, posing as a British journalist, he pursues his own investigation.
This leads him to Jewish and Islamic extremists and to Bernadette, a Lebanese
Christian who curses like a pure S'faradi and reminds him of his dead wife...
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Blueprint for a Prophet |
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When streetwise young Samir,
selling gum and cleaning cars on the streets of Beirut, meets the learned
and gentle Jew, Jacob, a new world of ancient texts and antiquities is
opened up to him. In another corner of this troubled land, a precocious
orphan, Khaled, is learning the doctrines of Muslim extremism, honing his
diabolical leadership skills for a future role in a religious world war. And
in England a young girl, Maira, learns the scientific truths that set her on
the road to discovering a new theory of time. Set in the turbulent Middle
East, bound in Phoenician myth and Islamic-Christian symbolism, Blueprint
for a Prophet is a dazzling first novel and a fable of haunting and
lasting power. |