Download or read book Flight Against Time written by Imilī Naṣr Allāh and published by Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Texas at Austin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel examines the strength of kin ties against the pull of national identity. The story follows the lives of three generations in a Lebanese family, and thus offers the reader a moving picture of how the Lebanese Civil War caused the dispersal of a traditional family across the world.