Beirut Burning
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Beirut Burning
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Author : H H Hachem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-21
Beirut Burning written by H H Hachem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-21 with categories.
The people of Lebanon will see a lot of change as the future becomes present. The country has overcome adversity in all phases, and it will continue to overcome. As the first 100 years ends, and the next 100 years await, the generations forthcoming will have a lot more pressure to sustain an environment that is fair and just. The people that have run this country will no longer be around. People will die, and they will be replaced by people who will take on the responsibility of leadership. Nobody lives forever. If Lebanon can maintain its peace, then the generations forthcoming will have a much easier time to lead. The memories of the 1975-1990 civil war will fade away and the people living in future generations will not have much connection to their forefathers that died on the battle ground. If you look at the world today, there is no living World War 1 veteran. They have all died and moved to heaven. The last living World War 1 veteran died in 2012. That means there is no living connection in the entire world left from that phase of time, in terms of people that were on the battleground. With no living connection left, the last link of World War 1 is now gone, and all that are left are memories and stories of how it was back then. The great-great grandchildren of those soldiers are living in present day, many of them never meeting their great-great grandfathers, the soldiers that survived the war. A soldier that was 18 years old when he went to war but survived, may have died in the 1950s or even the 1960s. His great-great grandchildren may not have been born until the 1980s or 1990s. This new generation doesn't know the horrifying life of the past, of World War 1 and how that war decimated Europe at that time.In the present, people travel the world and interact with one another. Descendants from countries of the Allied Powers interact with the descendants from countries of the Central Powers. Americans and Canadians interact with Germans and Bulgarians. The world has changed, the hate of that time is now gone. The fighting happened, and then the world moved on. Lebanon is at a stage where it needs to move forward. After all that has happened, the civil war, the war of 2006, the economic meltdown, the 2020 explosion that shocked the world. Lebanon has future generations that need to move on, put the hate and disorganization in the past, and make the country the best it can be. The Lebanon of the future will be unlike the Lebanon of the past. At some point before the year 2030, Lebanon will have a leader that will take the country to new heights and into prominence it has not seen in its history. At one-point heaven on earth, and at one-point hell on earth. The leader that comes forward and does right by the people, he will be loved and respected. His legacy will live on the next 100 years as the man who made change happen. This is now the time for that leader to emerge. Lebanon has had countless leaders assassinated or pushed out of office due to public pressure amid corruption. The people need a man they can trust. The people need a man that will be their voice on a united front. By the year 2100, there will be no living soldiers from the civil war of 1975-1990. There will only be stories in history books and schools teaching the students of how things were. The further we get away from that war, the more society in Lebanon will be able to move forward and the hate will dissipate. But people don't want to wait until the end of this century to realize what Lebanon can be. They don't want to wait for change. Life is too short; they want that change now! That change is forthcoming. In other countries, although politicians are known for getting away with alleged corruption to some degree, eventually the truth comes to bare. But with the Lebanon of the past, the finger pointing doesn't stop. The strongest and most resilient humans on earth, the Lebanese.
The Burning Cedars
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Author : Ramzy Baroody
language : en
Publisher: Ramzy Baroody
Release Date : 2012-06-21
The Burning Cedars written by Ramzy Baroody and has been published by Ramzy Baroody this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Drama categories.
The Burning Cedars provides a poignant and pragmatic account of the Lebanese civil war and ensuing turmoil while candidly unraveling the intricate secrets and at times turbulent relationships of a family whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs extended over three generations. The unpredictable and surprising turns and twists of each chapter continue to resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. At a time when Lebanon was thrust into the grips of a long and vicious civil war, the author offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of his fascinating country and its people. The Burning Cedars follows the life of a privileged young boy whose grandfather, a prominent village doctor amassed great wealth and power only to have it squandered away by the family or destroyed during the war. The grandmother, a powerful and domineering woman whose intense hatred for the boy's mother ignited the flames of a volatile relationship which could be described as cruel at best. The distant and uncaring brother and the unmarried and loving uncle, who concealed a deep and unforgiving illness, must all work together as a family to survive the atrocities of the war. In the midst of all the chaos, the young boy's own struggles with loneliness, fear and sadness are revealed, while happier days spent in Egypt and America all come together seamlessly in this fascinating and gripping true story.
As If You Re Inhaling Your Death
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Author : Bassam Khawaja
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
As If You Re Inhaling Your Death written by Bassam Khawaja and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Hazardous wastes categories.
Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background -- II. The effects of open burning -- III. Authorities' response -- IV. Steps forward -- V. Legal standards -- Acknowledgments -- Annex I. Response from Ministry of Public Health -- Annex II. Response from Civil Defense.
A Return
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Author : F. H. Mikdadi
language : en
Publisher: Nicholson
Release Date : 1983
A Return written by F. H. Mikdadi and has been published by Nicholson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Beirut (Lebanon) categories.
Beirut
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Author : Samir Kassir
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010
Beirut written by Samir Kassir and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
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.
Leaving Beirut
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Author : Mai Ghoussoub
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Leaving Beirut written by Mai Ghoussoub and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A twelve-year-old girl writes an essay that extols revenge to impress her teacher, and is surprised to receive criticism rather than praise. 'Revenge', Mrs Nomy insists, is 'the most cowardly' human behaviour. Years later, having fled Beirut, she reflects upon the devastating role revenge has played in her country. Might she have found it so easy to forgive if she had stayed? Or might she, too, have contemplated retribution? A compelling and humane book, which abounds in courage and compassion. 'One of those rare books that leaves its readers able to breathe more deeply, with a renewed sense that life, for all its cruelties, is beautiful.' Maggie Gee 'A writer, artist and publisher who took her passion for life, controversy and feminism to the streets of Beirut and London.' Malu Halasa, Guardian 'A tangled and creative mix of memoir, fiction, recollection, old-fashioned yarn-spinning, postmodern pastiche, literary criticism and methodically plotted political essay.' Daily Star, Lebanon 'One of the most poignant testimonies to the Lebanese civil war' Moris Farhi
Filming The Body In Crisis
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Author : Davina Quinlivan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Filming The Body In Crisis written by Davina Quinlivan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals with the question of loss, the healing body and its material registering of trauma.
Reconstructing Beirut
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Author : Aseel Sawalha
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Reconstructing Beirut written by Aseel Sawalha and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Lebanon Is Burning And Other Dispatches
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Author : Yazan Al-Saadi
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2024-11-19
Lebanon Is Burning And Other Dispatches written by Yazan Al-Saadi and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with History categories.
Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements’ success. This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s, in such places as Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and Bahrain. A collaboration between writer and journalist Yazan Al-Saadi and a lineup of stellar cartoonists from the region—Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirène Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma, and Enas Satir—this graphic reportage serves as a witness to an era of counterrevolutionary resurgence in which entrenched powers clashed with the people’s struggle for self-determination.
Painted Into A Corner
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Author : Faysal Mikdadi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Painted Into A Corner written by Faysal Mikdadi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Poetry categories.
These are poems and paintings which reflect the poet's struggle to make order out of chaos. For years, Mikdadi has struggled for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. At different junctures in his life, his despair at the intransigence of both sides and at the sheer cruelty of what Palestinians have had to endure, led him to write poetry and, occasionally, to paint in watercolours. These are some of the poems and paintings that he produced during his life. They speak for themselves. Maeve Binchy felt that Faysal Mikdadi's passion makes his poetry impossible to ignore. There is also a black and white version of this colour book also published by Lulu. It has been printed because this colour version, being printed entirely in colour, was deemed a trifle expensive. The black and white version allows readers to afford a copy. This colour version has also been published as an e-book.