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Abbas El-Zein
Abbas El-Zein
Native name	ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ
Born	Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation	Writer and academic
Nationality	Australian/Lebanese
Bildung	American University of Beirut (BE), University of Southampton (MSc, PhD), Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (DEA)
Notable awards	New South Wales Premier Literary Award – Community Relations Commission Award

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Abbas El-Zein (Arabic: ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ ; born 1963) is an Australian writer and academic. He is the author of two acclaimed works of fiction – a novel, Tell the Running Water^[1]^[2] and a collection of short stories, The Secret Maker of the World^[3]^[4]^[5] – as well as an award-winning memoir, Leave to Remain, about growing up in civil-war Lebanon and migrating to Europe and Australia.^[6]^[7] His new book, Bullet, Paper Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars was published on 3 April 2024 ^[8] and was shortlisted for the 2024 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award,^[9] one of the Queensland Literary Awards. El-Zein has also published essays and articles on war, displacement and environmental decline. His work has appeared in the New York Times^[10] the Guardian^[11] the Age,^[12] the Sydney Morning Herald,^[13] as well as literary magazines Meanjin, Heat and Overland.^[14] His writing is part of a body of work by a number of Anglo-Arab and Franco-Arab writers, first emerging in the 2000s, especially authors from a Lebanese background writing in English or French, post Lebanese civil war, such as Rabih Alameddine, Nada Awar Jarrar, Wajdi Mouawad and Rawi Hage, in whose work themes of violence, loss, memory and identity are prominent.^[7]^[15]^[16] El-Zein has made numerous media appearances^[17]^[18]^[19] and, as a scholar, has authored and co-authored a large number of scientific papers on environmental sustainability, hydrology, sea level rise and development.^[20]^[21] He has lectured at the American University of Beirut and the University of New South Wales. He is professor of environmental engineering at the University of Sydney.^[22]

Background

Abbas El-Zein was born and grew up in Beirut. He was twelve years of age when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975. He was educated at the bilingual French-Arabic school, Mission Laique Francaise.^[23] After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986, he left for the UK where he acquired Master's and PhD degrees in computational mechanics and mathematical modelling from the University of Southampton, and later, a Master's by research degree in environmental science from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lived and worked in the UK and France for a number of years before moving to Australia in 1995. He started writing his first novel while living in the UK.^[24] In 1993, he participated in a writing workshop/retreat run by Beryl Bainbridge and Bernice Rubens at the Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales. Later, he published a number of essays in Meanjin and Heat and completed his first novel in 1998. In 2005, he won an Australia Council for the Arts grant for new work, which led to the writing of his memoir Leave to Remain in 2009.^[25]

Awards and honours

Australia Council for the Arts Grant – New Literary Work (2005) ^[26]
Leave to Remain - A Memoir: Winner of New South Wales Premier Literary Award – Community Relations Commission Award (2010) ^[27]
Bullet Paper Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars shortlisted for the University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award (2024).

Books

Tell the Running Water, first published by Spectre, Hodder Headline, 2001, 248 pages, ISBN 0733613195; republished by Untapped in 2022.^[28]
Leave to Remain, A Memoir, first published by University of Queensland Press, 2009, 304 pages ISBN 9780702236921; republished by Untapped in 2022.^[29]
The Secret Maker of the World, University of Queensland Press, 2014, 192 pages, ISBN 9780702250071.^[30]
Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars, Upswell Publishing, 2024, 224 pages, ISBN 978-0-6458745-3-2.^[8]

References

^ Felicity Bloch, The Search for Redemption and Resolution: Review of Tell the Running Water, The Saturday Age, 18 August 2001.
^ Tony Maniati, When Worlds Collide for Tension's Sake, The Weekend Australian, 21 July 2001.
^ Messer, David (19 April 2014). "A new kind of tradition sharpened by precision". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ Cahill, Michael (23 September 2015). "Intimate Perspectives". sydneyreviewofbooks.com. Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ Lindsay, Portia (25 March 2014). "Harsh edges of an unyielding world". The Australian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ Borghini, Jose (11 April 2009). "Leave to Remain: A Memoir". The Australian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b Saadi Nikro. 2010. Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1.
^ ^a ^b El-Zein, Abbas. "Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars".
^ [1]
^ El-Zein, Abbas (27 July 2006). "The Tribes of War". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (6 December 2013). "As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (21 August 2006). "Evoking a past conflagration is not helping". The Age. The Age – Independent. Always. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (22 July 2015). "Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation". The Sydney Morning Herald. The Sydney Morning Herals. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ Meanjin. Vol. 58. 1999.
^ p49 of Leila Al Maleh. 2007. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview in Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature, edited by Leila Al Maleh, Cross/Cultures, Amsterdam ISBN 9789042027183.
^ "Mornings with Deborah Cameron and Geordie Williamson, 12 March 2009 (ABC 702)". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ On Beirut with Abbas El-Zein and Rabih Alameddine, by Caroline Baum, May 2014 (Booktopia TV).
^ Books and Arts Daily with Anita Barraud and Michael Cathcart, 1 May 2014 (ABC Radio National).
^ Mornings with Margaret Throsby, 11 March 2009 (ABC Radio National). Archived 10 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 July 2015
^ "Abbas El-Zein – Google Scholars". scholar.com.au. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein; Jabbour; Tekce; Zurayk; Nuwayhid; Khawaja; Tell; Al Mooji; De Jong; Yassin; Hogan (2014). "Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival". Lancet. 9915. 383 (9915). The Lancet: 458–476. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62338-7. PMC 4238938. PMID 24452051.
^ "Associate Professor Abbas El-Zein". sydney.au.edu. The University of Sydney. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Queensland: The University of Queensland Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Queensland: The University of Queensland Press. pp. 123–132. ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.
^ "Authors – Abbas El-Zein". uqp.uq.edu.au. The University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ "Abbas El-Zein". newcastlewritersfestival.org.au. Newcastle Writers Festival. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ "About the Awards". NSW Premier's Literary Awards. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (2001). Tell the Running Water. Untapped (reissued in October 2022; first published by Sceptre, Hodder Headline, 2001). ISBN 978-0733613197.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Untapped (reissued in August 2022; first published by The University of Queensland Press in 2009). ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.
^ El-Zein, Abbas (2014). The Secret Maker of the World. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-7022-5007-1.

External links

[1] Felicity Bloch, The Search for Redemption and Resolution: Review of Tell the Running Water, The Saturday Age, 18 August 2001.

[2] Tony Maniati, When Worlds Collide for Tension's Sake, The Weekend Australian, 21 July 2001.

[3] Messer, David (19 April 2014). "A new kind of tradition sharpened by precision". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[4] Cahill, Michael (23 September 2015). "Intimate Perspectives". sydneyreviewofbooks.com. Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[5] Lindsay, Portia (25 March 2014). "Harsh edges of an unyielding world". The Australian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[6] Borghini, Jose (11 April 2009). "Leave to Remain: A Memoir". The Australian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[Nikro2010-7] Saadi Nikro. 2010. Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1.

[:0-8] El-Zein, Abbas. "Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars".

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[10] El-Zein, Abbas (27 July 2006). "The Tribes of War". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[11] El-Zein, Abbas (6 December 2013). "As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[12] El-Zein, Abbas (21 August 2006). "Evoking a past conflagration is not helping". The Age. The Age – Independent. Always. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[smh15-13] El-Zein, Abbas (22 July 2015). "Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation". The Sydney Morning Herald. The Sydney Morning Herals. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[14] Meanjin. Vol. 58. 1999.

[15] 49 of Leila Al Maleh. 2007. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview in Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature, edited by Leila Al Maleh, Cross/Cultures, Amsterdam ISBN 9789042027183.

[16] "Mornings with Deborah Cameron and Geordie Williamson, 12 March 2009 (ABC 702)". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[17] On Beirut with Abbas El-Zein and Rabih Alameddine, by Caroline Baum, May 2014 (Booktopia TV).

[18] Books and Arts Daily with Anita Barraud and Michael Cathcart, 1 May 2014 (ABC Radio National).

[19] Mornings with Margaret Throsby, 11 March 2009 (ABC Radio National). Archived 10 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 July 2015

[20] "Abbas El-Zein – Google Scholars". scholar.com.au. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[21] El-Zein; Jabbour; Tekce; Zurayk; Nuwayhid; Khawaja; Tell; Al Mooji; De Jong; Yassin; Hogan (2014). "Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival". Lancet. 9915. 383 (9915). The Lancet: 458–476. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62338-7. PMC 4238938. PMID 24452051.

[22] "Associate Professor Abbas El-Zein". sydney.au.edu. The University of Sydney. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[23] El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Queensland: The University of Queensland Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.

[24] El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Queensland: The University of Queensland Press. pp. 123–132. ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.

[25] "Authors – Abbas El-Zein". uqp.uq.edu.au. The University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[26] "Abbas El-Zein". newcastlewritersfestival.org.au. Newcastle Writers Festival. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[27] "About the Awards". NSW Premier's Literary Awards. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[28] El-Zein, Abbas (2001). Tell the Running Water. Untapped (reissued in October 2022; first published by Sceptre, Hodder Headline, 2001). ISBN 978-0733613197.

[29] El-Zein, Abbas (2009). Leave To Remain: A Memoir. Untapped (reissued in August 2022; first published by The University of Queensland Press in 2009). ISBN 978-0-7022-3692-1.

[30] El-Zein, Abbas (2014). The Secret Maker of the World. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-7022-5007-1.

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-'''Abbas El-Zein''' ([[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]]: ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ ; born 1963) is an Australian-Lebanese writer and academic. He is the author of two acclaimed works of fiction – a novel, ''Tell the Running Water''<ref>Felicity Bloch, The Search for Redemption and Resolution: Review of Tell the Running Water, The Saturday Age, 18 August 2001.</ref><ref>Tony Maniati, When Worlds Collide for Tension's Sake, The Weekend Australian, 21 July 2001.</ref> and a collection of short stories, ''The Secret Maker of the World''<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-new-kind-of-tradition-sharpened-by-precision-20140418-36vh5.html|title = A new kind of tradition sharpened by precision|date = April 19, 2014|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = smh.com.au|publisher = Sydney Morning Herald|last = Messer|first = David}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.sydneyreviewofbooks.com/secret-maker-abbas-el-zein/|title = Intimate Perspectives|date = September 23, 2015|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = sydneyreviewofbooks.com|publisher = Sydney Review of Books|last = Cahill|first = Michael}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/harsh-edges-of-an-unyielding-world/story-fn9n8gph-1226854761395|title = Harsh edges of an unyielding world|date = March 25, 2014|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = theaustralian.com.au|publisher = The Australian|last = Lindsay|first = Portia}}</ref> – as well as an award-winning memoir, ''Leave to Remain'', about growing up in civil-war Lebanon and migrating to Europe and Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/leave-to-remain-a-memoir/story-e6frg8no-1225697004802|title = Leave to Remain: A Memoir|date = April 11, 2009|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = theaustralian.com.au|publisher = The Australian|last = Borghini|first = Jose}}</ref><ref name="Nikro2010">[http://southerlyjournal.com.au/project/golden-tongues-the-arts-of-translation-2/ Saadi Nikro. 2010. Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1.]</ref> He has published essays and articles on war, displacement and environmental decline. His work has appeared in the New York Times<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinion/27el-zein.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|title = The Tribes of War|date = July 27, 2006|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = nytimes.com|publisher = The New York Times|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Guardian<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/engineering-moral-effects-technology-impact|title = As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work|date = December 6, 2013|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = theguardian.com|publisher = The Guardian|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Age,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/evoking-a-past-conflagration-is-not-helping/2006/08/20/1156012410964.html|title = Evoking a past conflagration is not helping|date = August 21, 2006|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = theage.com.au|publisher = The Age — Independent. Always.|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Sydney Morning Herald,<ref name="smh15">{{Cite web|url = http://www.smh.com.au/comment/iran-deal-fails-to-address-rampant-arab-militarisation-20150722-gihyjb.html|title = Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation|date = July 22, 2015|accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = smh.com.au|publisher = The Sydney Morning Herals|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> as well as literary magazines Meanjin, Heat and Overland.<ref>{{cite book| title=Meanjin | year=1999 |volume=58| issue=2}}</ref> His work is a manifestation of a growing number of Anglo-Arab and Franco-Arab writers, emerging in the 2000s, especially authors from a Lebanese background writing in English or French, post [[Lebanese civil war]], such as [[Rabih Alameddine]], [[Nada Awar Jarrar]], [[Wajdi Mouawad]] and [[Rawi Hage]], in whose work themes of violence, loss, memory and identity are prominent.<ref name="Nikro2010" /><ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ji1YrUwThkIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9042027185&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMInenykenwxgIVZOKmCh1_NAe-#v=onepage&q&f=false p49 of Leila Al Maleh. 2007. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview in ''Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature'', edited by Leila Al Maleh, Cross/Cultures, Amsterdam] ISBN 9789042027183.</ref><ref>[http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/files/geordie_williamson_120309.mp3 Mornings with Deborah Cameron and Geordie Williamson, 12 March 2009 (ABC 702).]</ref> He has made numerous media appearances.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1pKTmGx-s On Beirut with Abbas El-Zein and Rabih Alameddine, by Caroline Baum, May 2014 (Booktopia TV).]</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/abbas-el-zein/5302146 Books and Arts Daily with Anita Barraud and Michael Cathcart, 1 May 2014 (ABC Radio National).]</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2512167.htm Mornings with Margaret Throsby, 11 March 2009 (ABC Radio National).] Retrieved July 24, 2015</ref> As a scholar, he has authored and co-authored a number of scientific papers on environmental sustainability, climate change, development and poverty.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=cLMPJJwAAAAJ&hl=en|title = Abbas El-Zein – Google Scholars|date = |accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = scholar.com.au|publisher = Google|last = |first = }}</ref> His more recent work has focused on the environmental, economic and human cost of high levels of militarisation in the Arab world.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival|author = El-Zein|author2 = Jabbour|author3 = Tekce|author4 = Zurayk|author5 = Nuwayhid|author6 = Khawaja|author7 = Tell|author8 = Al Mooji|author9 = De Jong|author10 = Yassin|author11 = Hogan|publisher = The Lancet |year =2014|isbn = |location = |pages = 458–476 |volume = 383 |series = 9915 |url = http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62338-7/fulltext}}</ref> He has lectured at the American University of Beirut and the University of New South Wales. He is professor of environmental engineering at the University of Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/people/abbas.el-zein.php|title = Associate Professor Abbas El-Zein|date = |accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = sydney.au.edu|publisher = The University of Sydney|last = |first = }}</ref>
+'''Abbas El-Zein''' ([[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]]: ﻋﺒﺎﺲ اﻟﺰﻳﻦ ; born 1963) is an Australian writer and academic. He is the author of two acclaimed works of fiction – a novel, ''Tell the Running Water''<ref>Felicity Bloch, The Search for Redemption and Resolution: Review of Tell the Running Water, The Saturday Age, 18 August 2001.</ref><ref>Tony Maniati, When Worlds Collide for Tension's Sake, The Weekend Australian, 21 July 2001.</ref> and a collection of short stories, ''The Secret Maker of the World''<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-new-kind-of-tradition-sharpened-by-precision-20140418-36vh5.html|title = A new kind of tradition sharpened by precision|date = 19 April 2014|accessdate = 24 July 2015|work = The Sydney Morning Herald|last = Messer|first = David}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.sydneyreviewofbooks.com/secret-maker-abbas-el-zein/|title = Intimate Perspectives|date = 23 September 2015|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = sydneyreviewofbooks.com|publisher = [[Sydney Review of Books]]|last = Cahill|first = Michael}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/harsh-edges-of-an-unyielding-world/story-fn9n8gph-1226854761395|title = Harsh edges of an unyielding world|date = 25 March 2014|accessdate = 24 July 2015|work = The Australian|last = Lindsay|first = Portia}}</ref> – as well as an award-winning memoir, ''Leave to Remain'', about growing up in civil-war Lebanon and migrating to Europe and Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/leave-to-remain-a-memoir/story-e6frg8no-1225697004802|title = Leave to Remain: A Memoir|date = 11 April 2009|accessdate = 24 July 2015|work = The Australian|last = Borghini|first = Jose}}</ref><ref name="Nikro2010">[http://southerlyjournal.com.au/project/golden-tongues-the-arts-of-translation-2/ Saadi Nikro. 2010. Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1.]</ref> His new book, ''Bullet, Paper Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars'' was published on 3 April 2024 <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=El-Zein |first=Abbas |date= |title=Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars |url=https://upswellpublishing.com/product/bullet-paper-rock |archive-date= |access-date= |website=}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the 2024 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award,<ref name="University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award (2024)">[https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/queensland-literary-awards/non-fiction]</ref> one of the Queensland Literary Awards. El-Zein has also published essays and articles on war, displacement and environmental decline. His work has appeared in the New York Times<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinion/27el-zein.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|title = The Tribes of War|date = 27 July 2006|accessdate = 24 July 2015|work = The New York Times|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Guardian<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/engineering-moral-effects-technology-impact|title = As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work|date = 6 December 2013|accessdate = 24 July 2015|work = The Guardian|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Age,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/evoking-a-past-conflagration-is-not-helping/2006/08/20/1156012410964.html|title = Evoking a past conflagration is not helping|date = 21 August 2006|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = The Age|publisher = The Age – Independent. Always.|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> the Sydney Morning Herald,<ref name="smh15">{{Cite web|url = http://www.smh.com.au/comment/iran-deal-fails-to-address-rampant-arab-militarisation-20150722-gihyjb.html|title = Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation|date = 22 July 2015|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher = The Sydney Morning Herals|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas}}</ref> as well as literary magazines Meanjin, Heat and Overland.<ref>{{cite book| title=Meanjin | year=1999 |volume=58| issue=2}}</ref> His writing is part of a body of work by a number of Anglo-Arab and Franco-Arab writers, first emerging in the 2000s, especially authors from a Lebanese background writing in English or French, post [[Lebanese civil war]], such as [[Rabih Alameddine]], [[Nada Awar Jarrar]], [[Wajdi Mouawad]] and [[Rawi Hage]], in whose work themes of violence, loss, memory and identity are prominent.<ref name="Nikro2010" /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ji1YrUwThkIC p49 of Leila Al Maleh. 2007. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview in ''Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature'', edited by Leila Al Maleh, Cross/Cultures, Amsterdam] {{ISBN|9789042027183}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/files/geordie_williamson_120309.mp3 |title=Mornings with Deborah Cameron and Geordie Williamson, 12 March 2009 (ABC 702). |access-date=21 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810051547/http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/files/geordie_williamson_120309.mp3 |archive-date=10 August 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> El-Zein has made numerous media appearances<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1pKTmGx-s On Beirut with Abbas El-Zein and Rabih Alameddine, by Caroline Baum, May 2014 (Booktopia TV).]</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/abbas-el-zein/5302146 Books and Arts Daily with Anita Barraud and Michael Cathcart, 1 May 2014 (ABC Radio National).]</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2512167.htm Mornings with Margaret Throsby, 11 March 2009 (ABC Radio National).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810031006/http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2512167.htm |date=10 August 2015 }}. Retrieved 24 July 2015</ref> and, as a scholar, has authored and co-authored a large number of scientific papers on [[environmental sustainability]], hydrology, [[sea level rise]] and development.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=cLMPJJwAAAAJ&hl=en|title = Abbas El-Zein – Google Scholars|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = scholar.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival|author = El-Zein|author2 = Jabbour|author3 = Tekce|author4 = Zurayk|author5 = Nuwayhid|author6 = Khawaja|author7 = Tell|author8 = Al Mooji|author9 = De Jong|author10 = Yassin|author11 = Hogan|journal = Lancet|publisher = The Lancet |year =2014|pages = 458–476 |volume = 383 |issue = 9915|series = 9915 |url= |pmid = 24452051|doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62338-7|pmc = 4238938}}</ref> He has lectured at the American University of Beirut and the University of New South Wales. He is professor of environmental engineering at the University of Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/people/abbas.el-zein.php|title = Associate Professor Abbas El-Zein|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = sydney.au.edu|publisher = The University of Sydney}}</ref>
 ==Background==
-Abbas El-Zein was born and grew up in Beirut. He was twelve years of age when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975. He was educated at the bilingual French-Arabic school, Mission Laique Francaise.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Leave To Remain: A Memoir|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University Of Queensland Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978 0 7022 3692 1|location = Queensland|pages = 11 | url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1054/Leave%20To%20Remain-%20A%20Memoir}}</ref> After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986, he left for the UK where he acquired Master's and PhD degrees in computational mechanics and mathematical modelling from the University of Southampton, and later, a Master's by research degree in environmental science from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lived and worked in the UK and France for a number of years before moving to Australia in 1995. He started writing his first novel while living in the UK.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Leave To Remain: A Memoir|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University Of Queensland Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978 0 7022 3692 1|location = Queensland|pages = 123–132 |url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1054/Leave%20To%20Remain-%20A%20Memoir}}</ref> In 1993, he participated in a writing workshop/retreat run by [[Beryl Bainbridge]] and [[Bernice Rubens]] at the [http://www.tynewydd.org/ Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre], Wales. Later, he published a number of essays in Meanjin and Heat and completed his first novel in 1998. In 2005, he won an Australia Council for the Arts grant for new work, which led to the writing of his memoir ''Leave to Remain'' in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1556/Abbas%20El-Zein|title = Authors – Abbas El-Zein|date = |accessdate = July 24, 2015|website = uqp.uq.edu.au|publisher = The University Of Queensland Press|last = |first = }}</ref>
+Abbas El-Zein was born and grew up in Beirut. He was twelve years of age when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975. He was educated at the bilingual French-Arabic school, Mission Laique Francaise.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Leave To Remain: A Memoir|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University of Queensland Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978-0-7022-3692-1|location = Queensland|pages = 11 | url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1054/Leave%20To%20Remain-%20A%20Memoir}}</ref> After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986, he left for the UK where he acquired Master's and PhD degrees in computational mechanics and mathematical modelling from the University of Southampton, and later, a Master's by research degree in environmental science from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lived and worked in the UK and France for a number of years before moving to Australia in 1995. He started writing his first novel while living in the UK.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Leave To Remain: A Memoir|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University of Queensland Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978-0-7022-3692-1|location = Queensland|pages = 123–132 |url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1054/Leave%20To%20Remain-%20A%20Memoir}}</ref> In 1993, he participated in a writing workshop/retreat run by [[Beryl Bainbridge]] and [[Bernice Rubens]] at the Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales. Later, he published a number of essays in Meanjin and Heat and completed his first novel in 1998. In 2005, he won an Australia Council for the Arts grant for new work, which led to the writing of his memoir ''Leave to Remain'' in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1556/Abbas%20El-Zein|title = Authors – Abbas El-Zein|accessdate = 24 July 2015|website = uqp.uq.edu.au|publisher = The University of Queensland Press}}</ref>
 ==Awards and honours==
-* Australia Council for the Arts Grant – New Literary Work (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/abbas-el-zein-2014/ |title=Abbas El-Zein |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2015 |website=newcastlewritersfestival.org.au |publisher=Newcastle Writers Festival |last= |first= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724162758/http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/abbas-el-zein-2014/ |archivedate=July 24, 2015 }}</ref>
+* Australia Council for the Arts Grant – New Literary Work (2005) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/abbas-el-zein-2014/ |title=Abbas El-Zein |accessdate=24 July 2015 |website=newcastlewritersfestival.org.au |publisher=Newcastle Writers Festival |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724162758/http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/abbas-el-zein-2014/ |archivedate=24 July 2015 }}</ref>
-* New South Wales Premier Literary Award – Community Relations Commission Award (2010)<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Awards |publisher=NSW Premier's Literary Awards |url=http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/about-the-awards |accessdate=July 24, 2015 |year=2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030418/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/about-the-awards |archivedate=February 19, 2012 }}</ref>
+* Leave to Remain - A Memoir: Winner of New South Wales Premier Literary Award – Community Relations Commission Award (2010) <ref>{{cite web|title=About the Awards |publisher=NSW Premier's Literary Awards |url=http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/about-the-awards |accessdate=24 July 2015 |year=2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030418/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/about-the-awards |archivedate=19 February 2012 }}</ref>
+* Bullet Paper Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars shortlisted for the University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award (2024).
 ==Books==
-* ''Tell the Running Water'', Spectre, Hodder Headline, 2001, 248 pages, ISBN 0733613195<ref>{{Cite book|title = Tell the running water|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University of Queensland Press|year = 2001|isbn = 0733613195|location = Sydney|pages = | url = http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2579925}}</ref>
+* ''Tell the Running Water'', first published by Spectre, Hodder Headline, 2001, 248 pages, {{ISBN|0733613195}}; republished by Untapped in 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=El-Zein |first=Abbas |url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/tell-the-running-water-abbas-el-zein/book/9781761280597.html |title=Tell the Running Water |publisher=Untapped (reissued in October 2022; first published by Sceptre, Hodder Headline, 2001) |year=2001 |isbn=978-0733613197 |location= |pages=}}</ref>
-* ''Leave to Remain, A Memoir'', University of Queensland Press, 2009, 304 pages ISBN 9780702236921<ref>{{Cite book|title = Leave To Remain: A Memoir|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University Of Queensland Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978 0 7022 3692 1|location = Queensland|pages = | url =http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1054/Leave%20To%20Remain-%20A%20Memoir}}</ref>
+* ''Leave to Remain, A Memoir'', first published by University of Queensland Press, 2009, 304 pages {{ISBN|9780702236921}}; republished by Untapped in 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=El-Zein |first=Abbas |url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/leave-to-remain-abbas-el-zein/book/9781761280580.html |title=Leave To Remain: A Memoir |publisher=Untapped (reissued in August 2022; first published by The University of Queensland Press in 2009) |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7022-3692-1 |location= |pages=}}</ref>
-* ''The Secret Maker of the World'', University of Queensland Press, 2014, 192 pages, ISBN 9780702250071<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Secret Maker of the World|last = El-Zein|first = Abbas|publisher = The University Of Queensland|year = 2014|isbn = 978 0 7022 5007 1|location = Queensland|pages = |url = http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1280/The%20Secret%20Maker%20of%20the%20World}}</ref>
+* ''The Secret Maker of the World'', University of Queensland Press, 2014, 192 pages, {{ISBN|9780702250071}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=El-Zein |first=Abbas |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19548175-the-secret-maker-of-the-world |title=The Secret Maker of the World |publisher=The University of Queensland |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-7022-5007-1 |location= |pages=}}</ref>
+* ''Bullet, Paper, Rock - A Memoir of Words and Wars'', Upswell Publishing, 2024, 224 pages, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-6458745-3-2</nowiki>.<ref name=":0" />
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