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REVIEWS OF HIS WORK IN ENGLISH
1 George Sfeir "Writings in Arabic", The N.Y. Times Book Review, Sept. 23, 1961, pp 48-49
2 George Sfeir "Contemporary Arabic Novel", Daedalus, Fall 1966; reprinted in Henri Peyre (ed), Fiction in Several Languages, Beacon Press, 1968
3 Trevor Le Gassick "Halim Barakat: Pacemaker in the Psychological Technique in Fiction ", Mid East, Oct. 1969; "Some Recent War-Related Arabic Fiction", Middle East Journal, Autumn 1971; "The Arabic Novel in English Translation". The Arab Novel Since 1950: Critical Essays, Interviews and bibliography, cambridge, MA: Dar Mahjar, 1992
4 S. J . Altoma "Sociopolitical Themes in the Contemporary Arab Novel" in H.e. Lewald (ed), The Cry Home: Cultural Nationalism And The Modern Writer, Univ. of Tennesee Press, 1972
5 Karin Ryding Reviews of Days of Dust in Middle East Journal, Winter 1975; Adnan Haydar in American-Arab Affairs, Summmer 1984; and John Haywood, "Halim Barakat, Days od Dust", Word Literature Today, Summer 1984
6 Edward Said "Introduction" to Days of Dust.
7 Roger Allen The Arabic Novel, Univ. of Manchester Press and Syracuse Univ. Press, 1982
8 Roger Allen "The Mature Arab Novel Outside Eypt", The Cabridge History of Arabic Literature", Vol. 4: Modern Arabic Literature, De. by M.M. Badawi, Cabridge Univdrsity Prress, 1992
9 Roger Allen Modern arbic Literature , N.Y.: Ungar , 1987
10 Evelyne Accad Sexuality And War: Literary Masks of the Middle East , Chap 8 , PP.111-134 , N.Y. UNiv. Press, 1990
11 Shukri Ayyad and Nancy Witherspoon Reflections and Deflections  : a Study of the Contemporary Arab Mind Thrugh its Literary Creations , Cairo : Foreign Cultural Information Department  ,1986 , pp 348-355
12 Muhammad M. Badawi A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature , oxford : Claredon Press , 1993 , pp 179-183
13 Various Reviews of Lebanon in Strife Appeared in: Sociology ( Volume 5 # 2, Jan. Feb. 1978 );  The American Historical Review ( Dec. 1977 );  American Journal of Sociology ( vol. 84 , # 4 ,Jan .1979 ); and Contemporary Sociology ( vol. 7, #3, May 1978 ).
14 Various Reviews of The Arab World Appeared in: Society Culture and State appeared in: Kirkus Reviews Jan. 1993; Milton Viorst, Washington Post Book World, March 21, 1993; Library Journal, March 1993; Catholic News Service, May 21, 1993; Edmund Ghareeb, Chanteh, Spring 1993; Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, #3, Summer 1993; International Affairs, October1993; Donald M. Reid, Digest of Middle East Studies, Winter 1994; Jerrold D. Green, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 23, No 2 March 1994; International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 26, No. 2, May 1994; The Middle East Journal, vol. 48, No 3, Summer 1994;  History, Fall 1994
15 Kamal Abu-Deeb "The collapse of the Totalizing Discourse" (section on Halim Barakat's novel Inana wal-Nahr, pp 355-357), in Kamal Abdel-Malek & Wael Hallaq (eds.), Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature, Leiden: Brill, 2000