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"A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism.". -Robin Morgan, Ms. . "Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history.". -Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today . "Personal, powerful, passionate, uncensored.". -Fedwa Malti-Dou

The connection between admired masculinity and violent response to threat is a resource that governments can use to mobilize support for war.

Novelist, song -writer, poet and professor of comparative literature at Illinois University (USA), Evelyne Accad visited Lebanon on a Fulbright Grant to teach Women's Studiesat Beirut University College. From January to June 1984 and despite a heavy teaching schedule and worsening security conditions, Evelyne managed to write a sizeable part of her forthcoming novel «Cedars and Ashes» which is about thewar in Lebanon. Al-Raida is proud to publish the first excerpts of this book

Bruner, Charlotte. Unwinding Threads. London : Heinemann,1984.