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When did you begin writing Songs for the Darkness and where did the inspiration for it come from?

Since my previous novel, The Weight of Paradise, came out, I wanted to write a novel that recounts the modern history of Lebanon as seen and narrated by women.

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History is usually written by men and the pressing question I had was: How would a woman narrate our history? She would have narrated it without leaving out the daily violence that women lived and continue to live. In her narrative, women would be at the heart of this history.

I began the project in 2020.

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I first had to conduct research about Lebanon’s modern history and post-independence era as well as women’s narrative and their relationship to producing and transferring knowledge from one generation of women to another. The research process took me approximately one year, during which I read history and sociology books.

I also searched the memoirs of politicians and biographies of pioneering women for the presence of wo