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Visions of Beirut

Author : Hatim El-Hibri
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013028
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Beirut written by Hatim El-Hibri and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images have shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging from maps, urban plans, and aerial photographs to live television and drone-camera footage, El-Hibri traces how the technologies and media infrastructure that visualize the city are used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial, economic, and military mapping projects helped produce and govern Beirut's spaces. In the 1990s, the imagery of its post-civil war downtown reconstruction cast Beirut as a site of financial investment in ways that obscured its ongoing crises. During and following the 2006 Israel/Hizbullah war, Hizbullah's use of live television broadcasts of fighting and protests along with its construction of a war memorial museum at a former secret military bunker demonstrate the tension between visualizing space and the practices of concealment. Outlining how Beirut's urban space and public life intertwine with images and infrastructure, El-Hibri interrogates how media embody and exacerbate the region's political fault lines.

From Beirut to Jerusalem

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374706999
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book From Beirut to Jerusalem written by Thomas L. Friedman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's new, updated epilogue. One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his ten years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism. In a new afterword, he updates his journey with a fresh discussion of the Arab Awakenings and how they are transforming the area, and a new look at relations between Israelis and Palestinians, and Israelis and Israelis. Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."--Seymour M. Hersh

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.

The For the War Yet to Come

Author : Hiba Bou Akar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605612
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The For the War Yet to Come written by Hiba Bou Akar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Through elegant ethnography and nuanced theorization . . . gives us a new way of thinking about violence, development, modernity, and ultimately, the city.” —Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. Neighborhoods reproduce poverty, displacement, and urban violence. For the War Yet to Come examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut’s southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighborhoods are arranged, not in the expectation of a bright future, but according to the logic of “the war yet to come”: urban planning plays on fears and differences, rumors of war, and paramilitary strategies to organize everyday life. As she shows, war in times of peace is not fought with tanks, artillery, and rifles, but involves a more mundane territorial contest for land and apartment sales, zoning and planning regulations, and infrastructure projects. Winner of the Anthony Leeds Prize “Upends our conventional notions of center and periphery, of local and transnational, even of war and peace.” —AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Fascinating, theoretically astute, and empirically rich.” —Asef Bayat, University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign “An important contribution.” —Christine Mady, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Recovering Beirut

Author : Samir Khalaf
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493093
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Recovering Beirut written by Samir Khalaf and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering Beirut, the result of a workshop organised by the Center for International Studies at MIT on urban planning and socio-economic reconstruction in post-war Lebanon, brings together established professors, young scholars, architects, town planners and entrepreneurs to explore the problems of and prospects for urban planning and to consider visions and strategies for the reconstruction of Lebanon after sixteen years of civil war. This fascinating volume, which opens with an introduction by the eminent scholar Richard Sennett, engages in multi-layered discussion of the problems of spatial, socio-economic and cultural rehabilitation of a fractured social order in the throes of post-war reconstruction. It contains 82 illustrations underlining the impact of the study.

An Unnecessary Woman

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802122140
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book An Unnecessary Woman written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive introvert in Beirut, eschewed by her family and neighbors for her divorced status and lack of religious reverence, quietly translates favorite books into Arabic while struggling with her aging body until an unthinkable disaster threatens what little life remains to her. By the best-selling author of The Hakawati. 20,000 first printing.

Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel

Author : Rawi Hage
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002921
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel written by Rawi Hage and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Truly a masterpiece.” —Lawrence Joseph On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society—an anti-religious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Pavlov agrees to take on his father’s work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and faded community at the heart of Lebanon’s civil war.

Under Siege

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535953
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Under Siege written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres, providing insight into the military pressure experienced by the P.L.O., the war's impact on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, and diplomatic efforts by the United States. A new preface by Khalidi considers developments across the Middle East in the thirty years since the conflict. The preface also cites recently declassified Israeli documents to offer surprising new revelations about the roles and responsibilities of both Israeli leaders and American diplomats in the tragic coda to the war, the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

A House of Many Mansions

Author : Kamal Salibi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520071964
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book A House of Many Mansions written by Kamal Salibi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kamal Salibi is the foremost living historian of Lebanon, and his new book is even more important than his earlier one because it throws light on the present and future of the country as well as its past."—Albert Hourani, author of A History of the Arab Peoples "Among Lebanese historians only Kamal Salibi has the credibility to write such a book. Its timely appearance signals a new era in Lebanese history. It will undoubtedly become a classic."—Nadim Shehadi, Director, the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford

Beirut Noir

Author : Īmān Ḥumaydān
Publisher : Akashic Noir
ISBN 13 : 9781617753442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Beirut Noir written by Īmān Ḥumaydān and published by Akashic Noir. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Akashic's acclaimed Noir series. Beirut is a city of contradiction and paradox. It is at once urban and rural, a city of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness.This short story collection is a part of a vibrant, living recovery of Beirut, effected through the literary visions of its authors. The stories here show the vast maze of the city that strictly can't be found in tourist brochures.

War and the City

Author : Sara Fregonese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838600531
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book War and the City written by Sara Fregonese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the Lebanese Civil War through a micro-level exploration of how the urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict. Focusing on the initial phase of the war in 1975 and 1976, the volume also draws significant parallels with more recent occurrences of internecine conflict and with the historical legacies of Lebanon's colonial past. While most scholarship has thus far focused on post-war reconstruction of the city, the initial process of destruction has been neglected. This volume thus moves away from formal macro-level geopolitical analysis, to propose instead an exploration of the urban nature of conflict through its spaces, infrastructures, bodies and materialities. The book utilizes urban viewpoints in order to highlight the nature of sovereignty in Lebanon and how it is inscribed on the urban landscape. War and the City presents a view of geopolitics as not only shaping narratives of international relations, but as crucially reshaping the space of cities.

War and Memory in Lebanon

Author : Sune Haugbolle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199026
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book War and Memory in Lebanon written by Sune Haugbolle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sune Haugbolle's often poignant book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of the Lebanese civil war.

The Mehlis Report

Author : Rabee Jaber
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221180
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Mehlis Report written by Rabee Jaber and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-language debut of 2012’sInternational Arabic Fiction Prize winner A complex thriller, The Mehlis Report introduces English readers to a highly talented Arabic writer. When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri is killed by a massive bomb blast, the U.N. appoints German judge Detlev Mehlisto conduct an investigation of the attack — while explosions continue to rock Beirut. Mehlis’s report is eagerly awaited by the entire Lebanese population. First we meet Saman Yarid, a middle-aged architect who wanders the tense streets of Beirut and, like everyone else in the city, can’t stop thinking about the pending report. Saman’s sister Josephine, who was kidnapped in 1983,narrates the second part of The Mehlis Report: Josephine is dead, yet exists in a bizarre underworld in the bowels of Beirut where the dead are busy writing their memoirs. Then the ghost of Hariri himself appears…

Cosmopolitan Radicalism

Author : Zeina Maasri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487718
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Radicalism written by Zeina Maasri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring visual culture, design and politics in 1960s Beirut, this compelling interdisciplinary study examines a critical period in Lebanon's history.

Roman Berytus

Author : Linda Jones Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134440138
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Roman Berytus written by Linda Jones Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Roman Berytus, from its founding as a Roman military colony in the reign of Augustus to its development as one of only three centers for the styudy of law in the rule of Justinian.

Notes from the Minefield

Author : Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231140119
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Minefield written by Irene L. Gendzier and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. By reevaluating U.S.-Lebanese relations within the context of America's collaborative intervention with the Lebanese ruling elite, Gendzier aptly demonstrates how oil, power, and politics drove U.S. policy as well as influenced the development of the state and region of Lebanon.

Beirut to Boston: A Cookbook

Author : Jay Hajj
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624143563
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Beirut to Boston: A Cookbook written by Jay Hajj and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delicious Comfort Food Dishes Inspired by an Immigrant’s Story of Success Today, Mike’s City Diner is the destination for foodies from all over the world, but it didn’t always used to be this way. Jay Hajj was born in Beirut and came to Boston to flee the violence of the Lebanese Civil War. Packed with mouth-watering recipes and inspiring stories of perseverance and success, this cookbook highlights the turning points in Jay’s career and the food that defines them. Spanning decades of his life, Beirut to Boston includes the Southern-style breakfast that stole Bill Clinton’s heart, Guy Fieri’s favorite Thanksgiving sandwich, Ming Tsai’s special hummus recipe and the pâté of wartime reinvented. Combining his old-world techniques for traditional Lebanese dishes with his approach to modern American dishes, Jay showcases comfort food with unique and enticing flavors. Every page starts with an incredible story of struggle and triumph, and ends with what Jay Hajj is known best for: one-of-a-kind American food inspired by his Lebanese upbringing.