Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
Beirut as Cultural Capital: Cosmopolitanism in the Shadow of the Cold War -- An Artistic Coup: Maryette Charlton and the Founding of the American University of Beirut's Department of Fine Arts -- The Artist as Cultural Diplomat: John Ferren in Beirut, 1963-64 -- Abstraction's Un…
"Uses ethnographic research from LGBT and queer subjects to challenge how sexuality has been used to provide an exceptional narrative about contemporary Beirut and modernity. Offers an alternative narrative that highlights the power of everyday life disruptive situations in shap…
During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevale…
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese commu…
"South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese comm…
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese commu…
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 fo…
