Risks can possibly be reduced by limiting exposure of inexperienced students, as well as using protective equipment, including mouthguards, eye/face protection, headgear, and padding. They are relatively safe compared to many other sports, and most martial arts injuries are comparatively minor. Physicians may wish to consider recommending martial arts to patients as a beneficial form of exercise.

This article provides an overview of martial arts for physicians who may evaluate such injuries in their practice. They do not promote aggression and may be used as a treatment modality for youth who are at-risk for violence. Benefits from this practice include better overall health and balance, as well as an improved sense of psychological well being. Martial arts provide health-promoting and meaningful exercise for millions of practitioners.

Participation in the martial arts is increasing, particularly for youth.

'Hallucinatory.… faceted meditation on existentialism.Martial arts are ancient forms of combat, modified for modern sport and exercise.

'Beirut Hellfire Society crackles with the kinetic energy of a dancer…The absurd volume of deaths is also tempered by Hage’s signature dark humor and stylistic playfulness.' - Sue Carter, Toronto Star Beirut Hellfire Society begins in 1978 with Pavlov, the son of an undertaker who inherits his father’s business and his membership in the eponymous group, a secretive, pagan-like sect that reveres fire, cremates the dead, and is ac commodating to those who have been shunned for reasons such as homosexuality and atheism.

'Potent.… Hage’s novel is a brisk, surreal, and often comic plunge into surviving the absurd nihilism of war.' - Publishers Weekly.

' draws on Hage's antic, many-voiced gifts to make a chronicle of war and unrelenting death into a provocative entertainment.' - John Williams, New York Times.

Longlist, The Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Shortlist, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

Shortlist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Currently the novel has been translated into Arabic, Croatian, French and Italian. Yousef Abu Amrieh University of Jordan Abstract This article aims at investigating the transformation of the contemporary Arab protagonist into an existential antihero in Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hell.

The novel chronicles his experiences as Pavlov fulfills his father's work for the society and portrays the decline of community and culture as a result of war.īeirut Hellfire Society was originally published by Knopf Canada in 2018 in Toronto, Ontario and then in 2019 it was published by W. Pavlov learns that this antireligious society-amongst other subversive acts-secretly organizes the burial or cremation of those that have been societally outcast for various non-conformist reasons. Beirut Hellfire Society Set in a war torn Beirut, a multi-cultural, multi-religious city, the story of Pavlov is both tragic and brave. Set during the middle of the Lebanese Civil War and after the untimely death of his undertaker father, a young man named Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society that his father was a part of.

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