People & Stories Worth Knowing
The K ·
Books to remind us of the Beirut and Lebanon that runs in all our veins... On days where it is the place of pundits and rhetoric. Let these novels take you on a journey through the best and worst parts of this magnificent city & country.
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The K ·
“Maps are traces left behind by the operation of power, and they reflect the production of spatial relations and exclusions. The way in which Beirut has been understood as a symbol first for the promise, then the failure, of a secular, liberal multi-ethnic city in the Arab Middle East is revealing both of the geography of Eurocentric historical imaginaries and of the strengths, incoherence, and frailties of modern forms of power”