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Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction Exploring the
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Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing res
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This book examines the history of Siena's famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventua
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How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond City of Beginnings is an e
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Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences
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The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective
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Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, whic
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Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the
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Postwar recovery required a transformation of France, but what form it should take remained a question. Herrick Chapman
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