Author & Editor

Born in Lebanon in 1966, my writing and editorial work has fundamentally been shaped by a mission to bridge ideas between East and West, translating complex concepts and cultural and historical nuances for diverse audiences.

My professional journey spans multiple industries and regions: from confectionery sales in Dubai to journalism and UN editorial roles in Beirut and Bahrain, and editorial work with Bloomsbury Publishing in Doha. Now based in Dundee, Scotland, I am currently working on my next novel and a related script.

Scroll down for a listing of my novels and scripts, or check out selected samples of my journalism and editorial work.

Greater Than a Wall

Two worlds and families collide with the arrival of the wall across the West Bank. When an Israeli youth is killed by a Palestinian youth in suspicious circumstances, it falls on the reluctant Aron Lunzer from the right-wing Israeli media to question the inconsistencies in the official report. His investigation leads him to Jewish and Islamic extremists and to a Lebanese Christian who curses like a pure Sephardic Jew and reminds him of his dead wife. Together, they uncover the events that led to the deaths of the two youths in a race to foil a suicide mission that is set to ignite a third intifada. This compelling novel provides a stark reminder of what can happen to communities when walls are built between people.

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Blueprint for a Prophet

Lebanon, both one of the most beautiful countries on earth (the site of the fabled Garden of Eden) and the place where one of the bloodiest civil wars was waged: this is the unlikely setting for a love story. The lovers are a young man, Samir Khoury, who is Lebanese, self-educated, poor; and Maira Brisden, a brilliant English scientist who has invented a new theory of time.

Samir shows one face of Beirut, that of a boy who somehow breaks free of a violent past. Khaled Sulman, a Muslim extremist who emerges as one of the most ruthless and single-mindedly violent fundamentalist leaders of the time, presents another face. When Khaled was born, it could have been quite different: he could have been a prophet for our time, and it was a random tilt of the dice that decreed otherwise. But perhaps the arrow of time that Maira explores in her new theory is in fact a cycle – and out of the pyre a new blueprint will emerge.

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Ancestral Call

When young Kamal Salah-ed-Din discovers his mother's brutal murder was meant for him, he embarks on a blood-soaked journey from innocence to vengeance. Armed with an ancestral sword and driven by rage, he transforms from a schoolboy into "the-Sword" – seeking to emulate the tactics of medieval Druze assassins. But in the shadows moves his twin brother Karim, the gentle "Cedarheart" who has chosen a different path. While Kamal wages war across Lebanon's fractured landscape, Karim seeks redemption in the wilderness, becoming a hermit-monk who speaks to trees and shelters the innocent.

Weaving a spellbinding tale of reincarnation, revenge and redemption set against the savage beauty of war-torn Lebanon, Ancestral Call is an epic meditation on the cycles of violence that bind families and nations, and the terrible cost of breaking free from the sins of the past.

Pairing the Twain

When an experiment concerning gravity and egocentric spin goes disastrously askew, Lebanese scientist George Karam is projected into an alternative plane of existence, transported in mind into a reptilian body. George discovers his androgynous status as 'he' and 'she' among a bipedal society of undifferentiated civilians. Accosted by Khab, Chief Scientist, George discovers that they are the sole individual responsible for Earth's looming fate.

Fallen Relics

When a mysterious woman vanishes with an artefact from the British Museum, she ignites a hunt that stretches across continents. From Moscow’s secret service halls to Aleppo’s war-torn streets, from Cambridge’s archives to SETI’s telescopes, the trail reveals not just stolen antiquities but relics of impossible power; objects that whisper of lost civilizations, holy grails and the very fabric of time itself.

At the heart of the mystery lies Maira Brisden, a brilliant young physicist whose radical theories on time may unlock more than just the stars. Drawn into a shadow war of spies, she must confront forces willing to kill for secrets buried since Babel. A high-stakes fusion of science, history and myth, Fallen Relics is a globe-spanning thriller where every relic tells a story, and every story hides a truth that could rewrite the world.

Beyond Spacetime

When a routine day in lockdown Edinburgh ends with Tim McCullough stepping in front of a tram, he awakens to find that four and a half years have passed, and the world is no longer the same. Haunted by cryptic emails, pursued by enigmatic beings who bend history itself, and drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from ancient Carthage to modern Cairo, Tim must untangle the mystery of who he has become.

Blending science fiction, historical intrigue and a deeply human story of love and loss, Beyond Spacetime is a mind-bending journey through parallel worlds where the boundaries of time, memory and reality dissolve.

Dear ETC.

Beirut, 1978. As the Lebanese Civil War rages outside his door, Alex Gibeily sits at his typewriter, composing letters to the children he has sent abroad. To his son in London, his daughter in France, his youngest dreaming of Cambridge, and to his brother in exile, he writes with urgency, wit, rage and love – trying to hold a family together with words while the city around him burns.

Drawn from authentic letters spanning seven years of war, Dear ETC. is a powerful stage play that fuses archival footage, Wagner’s music and the intimate voice of a father determined to give his children the future Lebanon has stolen. It is both a chronicle of survival and a testament to the unbreakable bonds of family.