in English

• Sitt Marie Rose: A Novel (1978)Written in French, the novel was translated into English in 1982. It was inspired by the true story of a woman killed in the Lebanese Civil War by a childhood friend who had become a member of the right-wing Christian Kataeb Party party. Because of its controversial nature, the Arabic translation of the book was not marketed in Christian East Beirut. The novel criticizes the violence both of a Christianity that is "not in actual communication with any force other than the Dragon" and an Islam "forgets all too often that the divine mercy affirmed by the first verse of the Koran can only be expressed by human mercy."
• Master of the Eclipse (2009)
• Seasons (2008)
• In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005)
• In/somnia (2002)
• There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other (1997)
• To Write in a Foreign Language (1996)
• Of Cities and Women, Letters to Fawwaz (1993)
• Paris, When It's Naked (1993)
• The Spring Flowers Own and the Manifestations of the Voyage (1990)
• The Arab Apocalypse (1989)
• Journey to Mount Tamalpais: An Essay (1985)
• The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems (1985)
• From A to Z Poetry (1982)

in Arabic

• al-Sitt Mari Ruz: riwayah. (Sitt Marie Rose.), with Jirum Shahin and Firyal Jabburi Ghazul.Al-Qahirah: al-Hayah al-Ammah li-Qusur al-Thaqafah, 2000.
• n mudun wa-nisa: rasail il Fawwaz. (Of Cities and Women.) Bayrut: Dar al-Hihar, 1998.
• Kitab al-bahr; kitab al-layal; kitab al-mawt; kitab al-nihayah, with Abid Azarih. Bayrut: Dar Amwaj, 1994.
• al-Sitt Marie Ruz. Bayrut: al-Mu-assasah al-Arabiyah lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 1979.

in French

• Ce ciel qui n'est pas. Paris: LHarmattan, 1997.
• Rachid Korachi: lcriture passion, with Rachid Korachi and Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh. Alger: Galerie Mhamed Issiakhem, 1988.
• L'apocalypse arabe. Paris: Papyrus Editions, 1980.
• Sitt Marie Rose. Paris: Des Femmes, 1978.
• Jbu: Suivi de l'Express Beyrouth enfer. Paris: P.J. Oswald, 1973.

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