Jaber has published more than twenty novels in twenty-five years — historical, fantastical, urban — including the Beirut trilogy and The Druze of Belgrade, which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2012.
Recurring themes
Beirut as historical layer-cake
the Arab encounter with Europe
the prolific contemporary novelist
wartime and post-war Lebanon
Selected works
- 1995Black Tea
- 2011The Druze of Belgrade
- 2005Mehlis Report
- 2008Confessions