Sixteen Years of Dust

About the Book

Hundreds of thousands of people fled the country when the civil war began fifteen years ago. The rich, the poor, the smugglers, the pimps, and the whores fled. But they all have one thing in common. Each of them has had a loved one killed or kidnapped or maimed, and all of them carry this around with them. They can’t run away from it, wherever they go. And what has this war accomplished? Nothing. Sixteen years for nothing, just the country crumbling to dust.

About the Author

Haas Mroue (1965-2007) Haas Mroue was born and raised in Beirut. He fled the war with his mother in 1975 and lived in several countries before he laid his roots in the United States of America. Haas graduated from UCLA and completed the Master’s programme from the University of Colorado Boulder. For the last ten years of his life he was living and writing in Port Townsend, an idyllic city in Washington State. His stories and poems appeared in a wide variety of journals and periodicals. He is the author of the screenplay A Photojournalist, Kabul to Beirut and the acclaimed collection of poems Beirut Seizures.