Impressions, Cedres et Cendres, by Evelyne Accad

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