This study highlights the significance of space as a narrative component capable of opening up a text to various possibilities. As such, the text is treated as a critical roadmap capable of producing meaning and knowledge. This study leans on spatial literary studies, with an emphasis on the relationality of spatiality and textuality, to offer a spatial reading of Hilal Chouman’s Kāna Ghadan. A reconsideration of the concepts of spatiality and textuality is paramount, particularly amidst the recent conjectures in spatial-literary studies, which focus on the specificity of the Arab experience. It presents a literary geography, based on Chouman’s literary map, specific to the experience of Beirut. This geography is not only shaped by how the protagonists see or understand the city, but also by how they experience and practice it on a daily basis. This practice and the way they converse about Beirut reflect a socio-spatial imaginary that challenges dominant narratives about the city.