Beirut

Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, 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

Originally published: Paris : Fayard, ©2003, under title Histoire de Beyrouth

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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Translator's Note; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PROLOGUE. THE EYES OF THE MIND; PART ONE. FROM THE ANCIENT TO THE MODERN WORLD; 1. Beirut before Beirut; 2. The Great Transformation; 3. The Ibrahim Pasha Era; 4. The Roads from Damascus; 5. A Window on Ottoman Modernity; PART TWO. THE AWAKENING; 6. A Cultural Revolution; 7. Between Boston and Rome; 8. The Horizon of the World; 9. Uncertain Identities; PART THREE. THE CAPITAL OF THE MANDATE; 10. France Broadens Its Mission; 11. The French City; 12. Grand-Liban and Petit Paris.

13. A Crucible for IndependencePART FOUR. THE COSMOPOLITAN METROPOLIS OF THE ARABS; 14. The Switzerland of the East; 15. Beirut, Male and Female; 16. The Pleasures of the World; 17. Écochard's Lost Wagers; PART FIVE. THE CITY OF EVERY DANGER; 18. On the Knife's Edge; 19. The End of Innocence; 20. Beirut, O Beirut!; EPILOGUE. TO BE OR TO HAVE BEEN; Notes; Glossary of Arabic and Turkish Terms; A; B; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Bibliography; Photographic Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.