... protestor resentment stoked by Trump’s US “maximum pressure” policies. A massive blast in Beirut’s port in August 2020 ended any lingering hope for reform and prompted Macron to personally unveil a stabilization plan through IMF neoliberal reforms, a carrot to Trump’s stick. The essay concludes that, one...

... for failing to provide public services and for corruption. Later in 2020, they again took to the streets to protest the addi- tional sins of financial collapse and the Beirut blast, the result of an analysis that diverged from the rather tired praxis framework where ruling elites are only pawns in the hands...

... challenge the Lebanese protestors now face to rebuild more equitably and sustainably. At the time of writing, protestors are facing an array of domestic and international actors and the specter of geopolitics. Two days after the blast happened, French president Emmanuel Macron flew into Beirut to walk among...

..., where his public speech is postponed by a bomb blast, which directs Bill to Athens, where he is struck by an errant cab and George Haddad talks him into traveling to Beirut by way of Larnaca, Cyprus. By the time Bill dies...

... in Beirut through a bomb planted under his car: both he and his niece (who was with him in the car) were incinerated by the blast. Two years before his death, in 1970, Kanafani was interviewed in Beirut by Richard Carleton from Australia's ABC network. The short interview is a remarkable lesson in Western...

... Nations Andrew Young was forced to resign because of contacts with the PLO. The revolution was almost complete: sights could be set on Beirut, barely limping but still alive. 5. Before...

... of his presence in nearby Beirut, which brought Genet s personal wanderings into perfect coincidence with history s merciless dismantling ofthe limits ofthe personal, produced a poetic encounter with the violence 424 Stathis Gourgouris of the world, his first in decades. Yet another encounter with Adorno...

... with respect to contemporary global capitalism. The final section of Don DeLillo’s novel Mao II is titled ‘‘Beirut At the conclusion to this novel’s exploration of the dialectic of celebrity and anonymity in American artistic...