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Beirut Fragments

Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892552450
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Beirut Fragments written by Jean Said Makdisi and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.

Beirut Fragments

Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beirut Fragments written by Jean Said Makdisi and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an autobiography of Makdisi--born in Jerusalem, raised in Egypt, educated in the West, and a resident of Beirut since 1972--and a biography of the city, transformed by 15 years of civil war from grandeur to ruins. Published by Persea Books, 60 Madison Avenue, New York, 10010. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lebanon

Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1849047006
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Lebanon written by Andrew Arsan and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.

Beirut Fragments

Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Beirut Fragments written by Jean Said Makdisi and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lebanon’s Jewish Community

Author : Franck Salameh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319996673
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Lebanon’s Jewish Community written by Franck Salameh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.

Beirut

Author : Samir Kassir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520256689
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Beirut written by Samir Kassir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.

Beirut, Imagining the City

Author : Ghenwa Hayek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725327
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Beirut, Imagining the City written by Ghenwa Hayek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural studies, geography and history, the author uses an interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining, and re-defining, of national identity in the seventy years since the creation of the Lebanese nation state. This theoretical perspective coupled with a close reading of little-explored contemporary writings lead Hayek to question the predominant assumption that Lebanese novelists only became engaged in discourses about place identity and individual and social belonging with the start of the fifteen-year civil war and the destruction of Beirut's city centre. Instead, the book shows that particular geographical imaginaries have been mobilized to describe, question and debate Lebanese identity since the 1960s and that some go back even further into the late nineteenth century. This re-reading calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most predominant assumptions about Lebanon and the processes of Lebanese identity formation across the country's modern history. Examining a wide range of modern and contemporary literature, Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity.

The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism

Author : Caroline Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135136521
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism written by Caroline Rooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies affiliated with history, international relations, and psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and visits the siege’s effect on different forms of memory and memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.

Beware of Small States

Author : David Hirst
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 0786744413
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Beware of Small States written by David Hirst and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial history of Lebanon, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hezbollah and Hamas wars of today, acclaimed and fiercely independent Middle East journalist and historian David Hirst charts the interplay between a uniquely complex country and the broader struggles of the modern Middle East. Lebanon is the battleground on which the region's greater states pursue their strategic, political, and ideological conflicts--conflicts that sometimes escalate into full-scale proxy wars. Hirst warns that only serious diplomatic action from the Obama administration can prevent the next such action from engulfing the entire region.

Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume 47 I

Author : Tjitze Baarda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004056855
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume 47 I written by Tjitze Baarda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume I

Author : T. Baarda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004266585
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume I written by T. Baarda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- The Study of the New Testament in the Netherlands, 1951-1976 /W. C. van Unnik -- A Fragment of Paul at Amsterdam (0270) /J. Smit Sibinga -- LC. XXIV 12 Les Témoins Du Texte Occidental /F. Neirynck -- The Author of the Arabic Diatessaron /T. Baarda -- Jeremias Hoelzlin: Editor of the 'Textus Receptus ' Printed by the Elzeviers Leiden 1633 /H. J. de Jonge -- Probleme Und Impulse Der Neutestamentlichen Apokalyptik /P. L. Schoonheim -- From Creation to Noah in the Second Dream-Vision of the Ethiopic Henoch /A. F. J. Klijn -- Marcus Gnosticus and the New Testament: Eucharist and Prophecy /J. Reiling -- In Ihren Zelten /J. Helderman -- Index of Authors /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of Subjects /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of References /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik.

Tatian's Diatessaron

Author : William L. Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004312927
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Tatian's Diatessaron written by William L. Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gospel harmony composed c. 172 C.E., the Diatessaron is one of the earliest witnesses to the gospels. Regarded as the first version of the gospels in Latin, Syriac, and Armenian, the Diatessaron was used by Encratites, Judaic-Christians, and “Great Church” Christians alike. This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the Diatessaron in more than a century. After sketching the second-century setting and Tatian's biography, it describes virtually every Diatessaronic witness and provides a scholar-by-scholar summary of research from 546 to the present. Criteria for reconstructing Diatessaronic readings are developed, and numerous examples offer the reader first-hand experience with the witnesses. It contains the first Bibliography of research on the Diatessaron (600+ titles) and the first “Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works” ever published.

The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

Author : Jumana Bayeh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736175
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora written by Jumana Bayeh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex relationships between place, displacement and belonging, and illuminates the ways in which these writings have shaped a global Lebanese identity. Combining history with sociology, Bayeh examines how the literature borne out of this expatriate community reflects a Lebanese diasporic imaginary that is sensitive to the entangled associations of place and identity. Paving the way for new approaches to understanding diasporic literature and identity, this book will be vital for researchers of migration studies and Middle Eastern literature, as well as those interested in the cultures, history and politics of the Middle East.

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Ussama Samir Makdisi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253346551
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa written by Ussama Samir Makdisi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East and North Africa form a region united by a common history of armed conflict and repeated international efforts at producing a lasting peace. This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between memories of past violence and the violence of present memories, the context for all contemporary efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation. The contributors examine the 1954–1962 Franco-Algerian war, the 1975–1991 Lebanese civil war, and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict as interconnected struggles that outline national polities, infranational fractures, and transnational political connections. Insofar as national unity has been constructed on the contested claims of sacrifice and martyrdom, the legacy of violence has remained inscribed at the heart of political identity. The case studies point to the failure of current attempts to officially forget past conflicts, at the same time indicating local successes in commemorative actions that forge at least partial peaces between individuals and groups. Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies. He is author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon. Paul Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College and author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (IUP, 2004). He has conducted research in France, Algeria and Morocco and is a member of the editorial board of Middle East Report.

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public

Author : R. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230112951
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public written by R. Goodman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. This inattention to the public is particularly worrisome now when the nation-state and its publics seem to have diminishing power and compromised democratic agency. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women.

Serçe Limani, Vol 2

Author : George F. Bass
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344064X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Serçe Limani, Vol 2 written by George F. Bass and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. Known as "the Glass Wreck," it bore cargo that included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels and eighty pieces of intact glassware, along with various artifacts of ship life. This second volume of the discovery’s investigation focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in the wreckage. The extensive catalog will be a valuable tool for archaeologists and scholars of Islamic glass and Islamic trade. Further, the systematic methodology and presentation of such a large undertaking will serve as a model for future study across many disciplines.

Reconstructing Beirut

Author : Aseel Sawalha
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774834
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Beirut written by Aseel Sawalha and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers "a postwar state of emergency," even as the state strove to restore normalcy. This ethnography centers on various groups' responses to Beirut's large, privatized urban-renewal project that unfolded during this turbulent moment. At the core of the study is the theme of remembering space. The official process of rebuilding the city as a node in the global economy collided with local day-to-day concerns, and all arguments invariably inspired narratives of what happened before and during the war. Sawalha explains how Beirutis invoked their past experiences of specific sites to vie for the power to shape those sites in the future. Rather than focus on a single site, the ethnography crosses multiple urban sites and social groups, to survey varied groups with interests in particular spaces. The book contextualizes these spatial conflicts within the discourses of the city's historical accounts and the much-debated concept of heritage, voiced in academic writing, politics, and journalism. In the afterword, Sawalha links these conflicts to the social and political crises of early twenty-first-century Beirut.