Hicham Cheikh Hassan is a nephrologist who trained and specialized in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. He worked for eight years in Sydney before settling in Beirut with his wife and children in 2023. This is his first book.susan abulhawa is a novelist and political activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, The Blue Between Sky and Water, and Against the Loveless World, among other works.

"The Day the Pagers Exploded is a defiant act of narration. It is a Palestinian-Lebanese doctor sitting down, in the middle of a war, and refusing utterly to leave his story for someone else to tell it."—susan abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin"Gives the reader an accurate feeling of the existential uncertainty and the fear and terror but also the ordinary dimensions of war."—Munira Khayyat, author of A Landscape of War

• Maps of Beirut and LebanonPrologue: Before Starting the DiaryPart 1: Before I Realized We Were in a WarPart 2: When I Realised There Was a War on LebanonPart 3: HalfwayPart 4: Before Things Get BetterInterludePart 5: The Longest of StretchesPart 6: The End and the BeginningEpilogue

Hicham Cheikh Hassan is a nephrologist who trained and specialized in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. He worked for eight years in Sydney before settling in Beirut with his wife and children in 2023. This is his first book.susan abulhawa is a novelist and political activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, The Blue Between Sky and Water, and Against the Loveless World, among other works.

"The Day the Pagers Exploded is a defiant act of narration. It is a Palestinian-Lebanese doctor sitting down, in the middle of a war, and refusing utterly to leave his story for someone else to tell it."—susan abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin"Gives the reader an accurate feeling of the existential uncertainty and the fear and terror but also the ordinary dimensions of war."—Munira Khayyat, author of A Landscape of War

• Maps of Beirut and LebanonPrologue: Before Starting the DiaryPart 1: Before I Realized We Were in a WarPart 2: When I Realised There Was a War on LebanonPart 3: HalfwayPart 4: Before Things Get BetterInterludePart 5: The Longest of StretchesPart 6: The End and the BeginningEpilogue