After studying economics and political science in Beirut, Paris and Bologna, Camille Ammoun worked for ten years in Dubai on policies related to urban sustainability and resilience. As a policy advisor he addresses issues related to climate change, environment, political economy, and sustainable urban development. As a writer, Camille is interested in psychogeography as a literary device to address contemporary urban issues through literature.
His first novel Ougarit (Inculte, 2019) mixes a political plot with an urban reflection on Dubai and, through it, on the city of the 21st century. Ougarit was awarded the Prix Écrire la Ville in 2020 and the Prix France-Liban of the Association des Écrivains de Langue Française (ADELF) in 2019.
Back in Lebanon in 2018, he gets involved in the fight against corruption and for a genuine democratic reform. In the wake of the October 2019 protest movement, he wrote his second book, Octobre Liban (Inculte, 2020). This non-fiction narrative begins on October 17, 2019 with the Lebanese revolution and ends on August 4, 2020 in the devastation of the Beirut Port explosion. Octobre Liban is a stroll through a street of Beirut that illustrates the corruption of the Lebanese political system.
Since 2015, he is an active member of the International Writers’ House in Beirut (Beyt el Kottab). Since 2018, he teaches urban environment and climate change economics at the Université Saint Joseph in Beirut. He writes a monthly column in L’Orient-Le Jour entitled Beirut in the World.
Camille Ammoun | كميّ عمّون 