Children are living in appalling conditions in Lebanon since the outbreak of war in July 2006. This collection of writing and drawings—from some of the world’s leading authors and artists—is for them.

Contributors include: Adonis, Paul Auster, John Berger, Abbas Beydoun, Raymond Briggs, Carmen Callil, John le Carré, Jung Chang, Hassan Daoud, Mahmud Darwish, Margaret Drabble, Moris Farhi, Robert Fisk, Maggie Gee, Charles Glass, Mona Hatoum, Tobias Hill, Aamer Hussein, Nada Awar Jarrar, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Peter Kennard, Zena el-Khalil, Hanif Kureishi, Doris Lessing, Toby Litt, Madi, Jean Said Makdisi, Alberto Manguel, Yann Martel, Adrian Mitchell, Blake Morrison, Beverley Naidoo, V.S. Naipaul, Greta Naufal, Alexandre Najjar, Shirin Neshat, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, Mohammad Rawas, Claudia Roden, Kamila Shamsie, Owen Sheers, David Shrigley, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, George Szirtes, Arnold Wesker, Brian Whitaker, and Hugo Williams.