Shirine Saad: Literature & Film

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What is the first trip you ever took on your own?
I left Beirut for Montreal on my own at 15. I remember the shock of the first winter, the naked trees covered in white, slipping on the ice with my bags of groceries. I watched classic films by Fellini and Almadovar, listened to Pink Floyd and Fairuz, and read voraciously in my tiny dorm room.

What are your favorite books?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
Beware of Pityby Stefan Zweig
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gigi by Colette by Colette
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

October 2012