Description City Gates was first published in Arabic in 1981, and in English in 1993.
City Gates is a fable of displacement and a v.
The once besieged and now deserted City is Beirut.
A stranger arrives at the Gates of a City from which everyone appears to have fled.
Elias Khoury\'s early works show him finding the distinctive voice that explodes in his epic Gate of the Sun .
It is a further exploration of the themes of exile, dislocation, and identity.
Description City Gates was first published in Arabic in 1981, and in English in 1993