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Author | : Jean Said Makdisi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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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
Author | : Jean Said Makdisi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Andrew Arsan |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849047006 |
Download Lebanon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.
Author | : Franck Salameh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319996673 |
Download Lebanon’s Jewish Community Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Samir Kassir |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520256689 |
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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.
Author | : Jumana Bayeh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857736175 |
Download The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Aseel Sawalha |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2010-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292721870 |
Download Reconstructing Beirut Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ghenwa Hayek |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857725327 |
Download Beirut, Imagining the City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : David Hirst |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459600169 |
Download Beware of Small States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
''Beware of small states, '' wrote the Russian anarchist Michail Bakunin, for they are the victims of greater states, yet a source of danger to them, too. Lebanon - a country half the size of Vermont - might almost have been designed to be the ''small state '' of the Middle East. It 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. In this magisterial history of Lebanon, from the end of the Ottoman rule to the Hizbullah and Hamas wars of today, David Hirst, the acclaimed and fiercely independent Middle East journalist and historian, charts with extraordinary skill and lucidity the intricate interplay between Lebanon and its geopolitical environment. This history of Lebanon is also a history of the whole Middle East and above all, of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Several states from inside the region and beyond have impinged on Lebanon throughout its history, invading, attacking and occupying it, but none has done so more strenuously and disruptively than Israel. Hirst, who has been banned from traveling in six Arab states and was kidnapped twice during Lebanon's civil war, takes an unsparing look at Israel's role, providing extraordinary accounts of the invasions of 1982 and 2006, as well as Israel's ''shock and awe '' attack on Gaza in early 2009. Hirst warns that only serious diplomatic action from the new Obama administration can prevent the next ''proxy war '' spiraling into a conflict that engulfs the entire region.
Author | : William L. Petersen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004312927 |
Download Tatian's Diatessaron Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.