Sabyl Ghoussoub: Reading and signing
Around the “Revenir, Expériences du retour en Méditerranée” exhibition
“A Lebanese newspaper is offering me a job in Beirut, I’m hesitating, should I come back to live in Lebanon?” asks Sabyl Ghoussoub in his text Le rocher de ma mère (My Mother’s Rock), published in the catalog for the exhibition “Revenir” (Coming Back) presented at the Mucem until March 16, 2025. In his writings, the writer and journalist has always pondered the question of returning to one’s homeland.
Through readings of two excerpts from her novels Beirut-sur-Seine (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2022) and Le Nez juif , as well as her contribution Le rocher de ma mère , Sabyl Ghoussoub takes us back and forth between Paris, Beirut and a seaside village in Lebanon.
Program
At 11:30am and 5pm – In the exhibition room – Georges Henri Rivière Building, Fort Saint-Jean
Reading of excerpts by Sabyl Ghoussoub
Reading introduced by Giulia Fabbiano, Senior Lecturer, IDEAS, AMU, and Camille Faucourt, Heritage Curator, Mucem, curators of the “Revenir” exhibition.
12pm and 3.30pm – Georges Henri Rivière building, Fort Saint-Jean
Book signing by Sabyl Ghoussoub
With the Mucem Bookshop
Sabyl Ghoussoub
Sabyl Ghoussoub is a journalist, writer and former director of the Lebanese Film Festival in Beirut.
As a columnist, he corresponded for two years with the Franco-Israeli curator Laura Schwartz on the blog “En attendant la guerre” hosted by the website of the daily newspaper Libération. Since February 2021, he has been writing the literary column “Quoi qu’on en lise” for the French-language Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le Jour.
Journalist, he works with various media (Konbini Arts, Blind Magazine, Libération, L’Orient-Le Jour, L’œil de la Photographie, Historia, L’Officiel Levant, Remue, Mashallah News, Agenda Culturel…).As a photographer, he has published his images in various journals (The Guardian, Fotografia Magazine…) and exhibited in Paris, Beirut and New York. Beyrouth-sur-Seine, his latest novel published by Stock, was awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2022.
Selected bibliography :
Beyrouth-sur-Seine, Stock, 2022 (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2022).
Beyrouth entre parenthèses, Éditions de l’Antilope, 2020 (Prix France-Liban 2020 Special Mention).
Le nez juif, Éditions de l’Antilope, 2018.
“A Lebanese newspaper is offering me a job in Beirut, I’m hesitating, should I come back to live in Lebanon?” asks Sabyl Ghoussoub in his text Le rocher de ma mère (My Mother’s Rock), published in the catalog for the exhibition “Revenir” (Coming Back) presented at the Mucem until March 16, 2025. In his writings, the writer and journalist has always pondered the question of returning to one’s homeland.
Through readings of two excerpts from her novels Beirut-sur-Seine (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2022) and Le Nez juif , as well as her contribution Le rocher de ma mère , Sabyl Ghoussoub takes us back and forth between Paris, Beirut and a seaside village in Lebanon.
Program
At 11:30am and 5pm – In the exhibition room – Georges Henri Rivière Building, Fort Saint-Jean
Reading of excerpts by Sabyl Ghoussoub
Reading introduced by Giulia Fabbiano, Senior Lecturer, IDEAS, AMU, and Camille Faucourt, Heritage Curator, Mucem, curators of the “Revenir” exhibition.
12pm and 3.30pm – Georges Henri Rivière building, Fort Saint-Jean
Book signing by Sabyl Ghoussoub
With the Mucem Bookshop
Sabyl Ghoussoub
Sabyl Ghoussoub is a journalist, writer and former director of the Lebanese Film Festival in Beirut.
As a columnist, he corresponded for two years with the Franco-Israeli curator Laura Schwartz on the blog “En attendant la guerre” hosted by the website of the daily newspaper Libération. Since February 2021, he has been writing the literary column “Quoi qu’on en lise” for the French-language Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le Jour.
Journalist, he works with various media (Konbini Arts, Blind Magazine, Libération, L’Orient-Le Jour, L’œil de la Photographie, Historia, L’Officiel Levant, Remue, Mashallah News, Agenda Culturel…).As a photographer, he has published his images in various journals (The Guardian, Fotografia Magazine…) and exhibited in Paris, Beirut and New York. Beyrouth-sur-Seine, his latest novel published by Stock, was awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2022.
Selected bibliography :
Beyrouth-sur-Seine, Stock, 2022 (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2022).
Beyrouth entre parenthèses, Éditions de l’Antilope, 2020 (Prix France-Liban 2020 Special Mention).
Le nez juif, Éditions de l’Antilope, 2018.
