Reconstructing Beirut : : Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City / / Aseel Sawalha.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jamal and Rania Daniel Series in Contemporary History, Politics, Culture, and Religion of the Levant
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Language
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Beirut: A City in Transition
- Chapter 2. Downtown in “the Ancient City of the Future”
- Chapter 3.ʿAyn el-Mreisse: T he Global Market and the Apartment Unit
- Chapter 4. “Beirut Is Ours, Not Theirs”: Neighborhood Sites and Struggles in ʿAyn el-Mreisse
- Chapter 5. Cafés, Funerals, and the Future of Coffee Sp aces
- Chapter 6. Placing the War-Displaced
- Afterword. Reclaiming Downtown Again
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index