We present an extract from The Fourth Wall, the international bestseller by French author Sorj Chalandon, informed by the author's own experiences as a journalist in the Middle East, and published in a new translation by Dublin-based Lilliput Press. Beirut, 1982, at the outbreak of the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the young French activist George has been tasked by his old friend Samuel – a Greek Jewish resistance fighter and theatre director – with staging a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone in the Lebanese city. With a cast composed of those on all sides – Palestinian, Christian, Druze,...