Halim Barakat
Biography
Halim Barakat was born in 1936 in Kafroun in Syria into a Greek-Orthodox Arab family. He took a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from the American University of Beirut and a Ph. D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. After teaching at the American University of Beirut, he taught at various universities in the United States, primarily at Georgetown. As well as writing novels and short stories he has written many works on politics and sociology in the Arab world.
Other links
Halim Barakat
Georgetown University Professor, Halim Barakat: ‘The Jews Have Lost Their Humanity’ ‘They Do Not Raise Their Children to be Weak’
Bibliography
1956 القمم الخضراء (novel)
1958 الصمت والمطر (short stories)
1961 ستة أيام (Six Days) (novel)
1969 عودة الطائر الى البحر (Days of Dust) (novel)
1969 River Without Bridges (with Peter Dodd) (non-fiction)
1977 Lebanon in Strife
1977 Visions of Social Reality in The Contemporary Arab Novel
1979 الرحيل بين السهم والوتر (novel)
1984 المجتمع العربي المعاصر (non-fiction)
1985 Contemporary North Africa: Issues of Development and Integration (non-fiction)
1988 Towards A Viable Lebanon (non-fiction)
1988 طائر الحوم (The Crane) (novel)
1992 حرب الخليج (non-fiction)
1993 The Arab World: Society, Culture and State (non-fiction)
1995 إنانة والنهر (novel)
1999 المجتمع العربي في القرن العشرين (non-fiction)
2004 الهوية أزمة الحداثة والوعي التقليدي (non-fiction)
2006 الاغتراب في الثقافة العربي (non-fiction)
2006 المدينة الملونة (novel)
2008 المجتمع العربي المعاصر : بحث في تغير الاحوال والعلاقات (politics)
2011 غربة الكاتب العربي (literature)
2012 مدونتي ليوميات احتلال العراق : مقامات الحزن والغضب (journal)