Features of the book * The novel "Beirut" won the Hanna Wakim Prize for Lebanese Novel 2010. * "An exciting epic novel with emotional, political, and sports plots." Le Monde des livres * "Berlin 36" is not just a historical novel, nor a documentary, or a love story, or a 'sporting' novel... It incorporates these genres along with a cinematic dimension... Al-Hayat Newspaper This novel revolves around a main event, the Olympic Games organized by the Third Reich in Berlin in 1936. A host of characters orbited around this event: the Führer who was determined to deceive the world, portraying Germany as a peace-promoting country; Jesse Owens, the black runner who defied the Nazis and their racial segregation ideologies by winning four gold medals; Ministers Goebbels and Göring who devised numerous plans to use the games as a political propaganda tool for Nazism; Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Olympic Games, who became a fallen icon, betraying sports values by supporting the organizers; Pierre Gemayel, the Lebanese leader who visited the city and discovered, with amazement, the other side of the scene... In this multilayered and complex novel, Iskandar Najar skillfully maneuvers the threads of these characters, mostly real and some imagined, narrating the story of the Olympic Games in Berlin, as if it were a waltz of three steps. Iskandar Najar is a Lebanese lawyer and writer. He oversees the literary supplement L’Orient Littéraire. He has several novels in French translated into Arabic, including "Paths of Migration," "The Astronomer," "The School of War," "Gibran Khalil Gibran," which has been translated into many languages. He supervised "The Complete Works" of Gibran published in French. His works published by Dar Al Saqi include "Beirut Novel," "The Siege of Tyre," and "The Dictionary of Gibran Khalil Gibran." Publishing house: Dar Al Saqi for Publishing and Distribution Number of Pages: 384 Year of publication: 2014