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Reconstructing Beirut

Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City

أسيل صوالحة (مؤلف/مؤلفة)

غير خيالي

نشرت الطبعة سنة 2010 باللّغة الإنجليزية
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...
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