Night Settles Upon The City

Written with urgency out of a war-time Beirut this poetry collection registers the griefs and the heroism of the Lebanese under siege yet again. Sabbagh lends his lyrical voice here to give a voice to the voiceless trying to find some harmonic sense out of catastrophe. This book will compel readers both Lebanese and those with any kind of human heart. While much of the work was written swiftly on impulse and almost like as one of the poem's title's has it a 'War Diary' in verse this work aims nonetheless to last in its significance and resonance at a time when the world as a whole (let alone Lebanon herself) has become so unpredictable so fickle and so perilous. Night Settles Upon The City aims to be a worthwhile addition to the contemporary literature of war and more specifically to the literary representations of the modern Lebanese reality and experience.