Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City

by Aseel Sawalha

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728816
• ISBN13: 9780292728813
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"