The Dark Side of Love

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Table of Contents

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BOOK OF LOVE I - Olive trees and answers both need time.

1. The Question

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BOOK OF DEATH I - Questions are the children of freedom.

2. A Body in the Basket

3. Police Commissioner Barudi

4. In the Jungle

6. Colonel Badran and the Course of Events

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BOOK OF LOVE II - Love is poverty that makes you rich.

9. Rapprochement

10. The End of Childhood

11. An Obstacle

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BOOK OF LOVE III - Women are like elm trees, beating them does no good.

16. Sarka's Laughter

17. Laila's Decision

18. Laila and the Madman

20. Sarka's Fever

21. The Elm Tree

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BOOK OF THE CLAN I - Arab clans and pyramids ignore the passing of time.

23. Elias Leaves

24. A Reception

26. How Mushtak Won Honour

28. The Transformation of Elias

32. Adnan's Revenge

34. Defeat of the Master of the House

35. Samira and Shams

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BOOK OF THE CLAN II - The clan saved the Arabs from the desert, and at the same ...

36. Jasmin and Mariam

38. Fifty-One and One

39. The Struggle

40. Faris the Patient

41. Musa and Hasib

42. End of a Hope

43. Butros and Samuel

44. A Mother's Lament

46. The Opportunity

47. Shaklan's Birthday Party

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BOOK OF THE CLAN III - Love is a wildcat with nine lives

51. Lucia and Nagib

52. Tamam and Sarkis

53. The Rift and the Meeting

54. Purgatory and Paradise

55. Beirut, or Deliverance

56. Autumnal Atmosphere

57. An Unholy Alliance

58. The Lightness of Love

59. Mirages and Oases

60. Water In A Sieve

61. Pangs of Conscience

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BOOK OF LOVE IV - At the moment of love there's no place for a strange woman

63. Disturbances

64. Sheikh Napoleon

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BOOK OF GROWTH I - Caterpillars dream of flying.

67. Grandparents

71. An Oasis Called Antoinette

75. At the Barber's

76. Cats and Bandits

77. A Series of Coups

79. An Angel's Weak Point

81. Going to the Movies

82. The Short Memory of Chickens

83. The Devil's Daughters

86. On the Rooftops

87. Forbidden Reading

88. The Photograph

89. The Inventor

90. Laila's New House

91. Grandfather's Death

92. Going to Church

93. Saying Goodbye

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BOOK OF LAUGHTER I - The world of the imagination welcomes children more kindly ...

95. The Cat-Lover

96. The Scooter

98. The Photographer

99. Suleiman and the Chickens

100. Sugar Dollies

101. Quo Vadis?

103. Superstition

104. Grandfather's Glasses

106. Salma and St. John

107. When the Tram Stopped

108. Children's Games

109. Festival of Sacrifice

110. Riding a Bicycle

111. Maaruf Directing Traffic

112. Raining Sugar-Coated Fennel Seeds

113. Grandfather's Salt

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BOOK OF LONELINESS I - Loneliness is death's twin brother.

114. The Journey

115. Tanios and Asma

118. The Tonsure

119. The First Night

120. Summer Days

121. Joan of Arc

122. Nights in Autumn

123. The Inquisitor

124. A Shipwrecked Sailor

127. An Excursion

128. The Syrian Brothers

131. Spiritual Welfare

132. Fire and Water

133. Claire's Second Visit

134. The Sufferings of the Christians

136. Brother Nicholas

137. Spectres by Night

138. Drifting Apart

139. Encounters

140. Matta Runs Away

141. Punishment

145. Going Back

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BOOK OF GROWTH II - He who reads books in spite of school will become a master.

146. Coming Home

148. Matta's Ordeal

150. Three Days of Dreams Come True

152. Women Visiting

153. Saki's Flight

155. Suleiman and Lamia

156. Indian Movies

157. Gibran the Sailor

160. Hakawati of the Night

161. Wars Large and Small

162. Backgammon

163. Nourishment

164. The End of a Dream

166. The President's Jacket

167. Gibran's Love

169. Women Helping Out

170. Rasuk and Elizabeth

171. The Debts of Venice

172. Paths Crossing

173. The State of God

175. The Prayer

176. Hunter and Hunted

177. The Wine Cellar

178. Masculine Honour

179. Listening to Films

180. Fatima and Josef

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BOOK OF LAUGHTER II - Faith seldom moves mountains, but superstition moves ...

182. Azar's Machines

183. A Women's Meeting

184. A Little Worm

185. Crazy Hours

187. Of Cats and Clever Women

188. Matta's FiancÃ©e

189. The Night of Jokes

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BOOK OF LOVE V - Happiness often lies in delaying misfortune.

190. The Man Who Saw With His Ears

192. Breathless

193. Moon Woman

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BOOK OF HELL I - If we are to respect the freedom of others we must first ...

195. Interrogation

196. The Forecourt of Hell

198. The Chinese

199. The Children of Job

200. The Power of Words

202. The False Martyr

203. The Chemistry of Isolation

204. Salto Vitale

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BOOK OF LOVE VI - Love lives only in the memory but it needs oblivion too.

205. A Bus Ride

206. Josef's Promise

207. Dunia and the Bedroom Woman

208. Late Enlightenment

209. Spring in Autumn

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BOOK OF GROWTH III - Courage kills and so does cowardice.

210. Josef's Injury

211. Gibran's Return

212. Matta's Wedding

213. Hegel in Damascus

214. Coincidence

216. “Youth”

217. Love of the Eunuchs

218. An Icy Spring

220. Treasure Hunting

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BOOK OF LAUGHTER III - Both chemical factories and dictators contaminate their surroundings.

221. Fasting in Space

222. Munir's Father

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BOOK OF GROWTH IV - A dictator lives not on earth but in his head.

224. The Problem of Brothers

226. Beginnings

227. First Signs

230. Song of the Cicadas

233. Women's Views

234. Sobering Up

235. Laila's Night

236. Drinking the Rainbow

237. The Mental Hospital

238. Sabri and Rachel

241. Lonely Night

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BOOK OF LAUGHTER IV - He who sows suspicion reaps traitors.

243. Adding Up the Truth

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BOOK OF HELL II - Those who come to Tad are lost. Those who leave Tad are reborn.

244. The Way to Golgotha

248. Loyalty and Recantation

250. The Quarry

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