Life, Love and War with Katherine Saad Feghali

Women Leaders continues its summer series with women authors.Much has been written about the current horrors of Lebanon, but they really started long ago, in the civil war that raged between 1975-1990.As part of our women authors summer season, we turn to a novel written about coming of age in that period — to the brutality of war alongside the attempts at keeping normality alive, of food and family and nostalgia, of young love and loss, of the harsh destruction of commonality amongst different ethnicities in the face of brutality.Katherine Saad Feghali is the author of Glass Cedars, a roman à clef in which she recounts her love for Lebanon while observing its disintegration. A lyrical book that in many ways tells far more about the reality of Lebanon than any factual reporting. A touching and interesting conversation about destruction, PTSD and Lebanon!This episode was recorded on 11 August 2026ChaptersThe origins of Glass CedarsTurning personal tragedy into a missionThe universal human experience of migration and conflictThe role of women in Lebanon and the USThe importance of human stories over political narrativesMentionsBook - Glass Cedars - Amazon US & Amazon UKPoem - Epic of Gilgamesh - BritannicaAssociation - Education and Opportunities for LebanonFollowKatherine Saad Feghali LinkedIn InstagramIlana Bet-ElInstagram @women_leaders_podcastListen to this episode on our YouTube channelOur partner European Leadership Network Twitter LinkedIn Facebook websiteCreditsProduction: Florence FerrandoMusic: Let Good Times Roll, RA from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/let-good-times-roll License code: ZXIIIJUU2ISPZIJTContribute to the conversation with a comment & a 5-⭐️Reach us on our Instagram and follow for updates @women_leaders_podcastWatch now our episode on Youtube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.