...Miriam Cooke Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Miriam Cooke Reimagining Lebanon We must resist the formation of national, ethnic, and other myths, as they are being formed. Eric Hobsbawm The end of the twentieth century has pro­ duced two paradoxical global phenomena...

...Diana Allan Drawing on ethnographic material from Shatila camp in Beirut and the informal gathering of Jal el Bahr in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, this article explores the possibilities suggested by various forms of collaborative practice within these marginalized communities. As the Palestinian...

...Miriam Cooke Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Lebanon Is There a Future? Echoes from Contemporary Lebanese Women Writers Miriam Cooke This society is not a society in the real sense of the word, because there is no such thing as a Lebanese community There is no such thing...

...Lea Bou Khater In a world dominated by neoliberalism, there is renewed attention to labor organizing and radical forms of action outside the institutional framework. In Lebanon, the October 2019 Revolution brought to the forefront the capacity of labor to recompose its power in the face of the long...

...Karim Makdisi This essay frames the early promise and energy of Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, triggered by the government’s announcement of a series of regressive taxes. After fifteen years of civil war (1975–90) and three decades of postwar neoliberal policies, people rose up against...

...Jamil Mouawad This article looks at Lebanon’s October 17 uprising from the vantage point of teaching in academia when classes were suspended and students were no longer meeting in the classroom to participate in a course of high relevance aiming to address and unpack the unfolding events...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s...

...Hannes Baumann Lebanon’s protests were sparked by economic misery, especially the decline of the long-standing currency peg. What is surprising about the currency collapse is not that it happened at all, but that the country’s unsustainable economic model avoided it for so long. A unique coalition...

...Ruba Salih Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are often described as living in a condition of waithood, suspended from law and awaiting return to their national homeland, where they will finally turn into qualified political lives. This frame, stemming from Hannah Arendt’s legacy, fetishizes rights...

... by the tidal wave that later engulfed Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, and on May 25, 1969, a military regime took over in Khartoum. Its ideology was Arab nationalism infused with socialism; its social base, the army and the urban classes; and its model, the Nasserist experiment. Alain Gresh The Free...

... about by the uprisings in Syria. Finally, my Pal- estinian interlocutors were a diverse group in terms of where they had lived prior to arriving in France: these locations included Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and places within what is now Israel. As others...

... emergence of Palestinian resistance groups, crushed by the Jordanian government in the s mass mobilization in Lebanon, disori- ented by the Lebanese Civil War and aborted in a particularly savage war by General Sharon...

... of Palestinian Exile (2014) and the founder and codirector of the Nakba Archive and Lens on Lebanon. Her ‚lms include Still Life (2007), Nakba Archive Excerpts (2008), and Terrace of the Sea (2010). Her current research focuses on Lebanon’s informal economy and the politics of infrastructure...

... towns, and retail trading in his home town of Lebanon. During the wars with France, Trumbull s contracts with the British commissary earned him the title of provision king. Unlike Hancock, who admitted that his fortune was based on wartime catering to the armed forces, Trumbull s services yielded little...

... of painful realities informing much contemporary theory.21 Communicative Impasse The specific details surrounding Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 still remain relatively unknown, or seemingly so, in Left-liberal intellectual circles in the United States. It’s not so much...

... enterprises, founded by Jonathan s father, consisted of three principal lines: buying cattle and local provisions for sale in Boston, distributing English wares in Connecticut towns, and retail trading in his home town of Lebanon. During the wars with France, Trumbull s contracts with the British commissary...

... to serve as a stark prison for the hostage and, finally, as Bill’s cabin on the ferry to Lebanon. The audience is thus constantly challenged by different media and scenic dislocations that remind us of our difficulties of process...

... Arabs, the latter might, just might, be required to don special badges perhaps a yellow crescent. Just for identification, of course. Then, following the Israeli in­ vasion of Lebanon in June 1982, Stone signed a letter that appeared in the Washington Post condemning the death and destruction...

... of Lebanon’s infrastructure, the pros- pect of the Palestinians activating the Israeli immune system often brings with it extremes of violence.21 The activation of the immune system trig- gers a whole host of reactions, which are framed as “Palestinian terror” and “Israeli counterterror,” where Arab...

... who wanted to create an egalitarian society where all Israelis could live together. My children learn both Arabic and Hebrew; they celebrate Christmas and Chanukah and Id el Fitter. My six-year-old daughter talks about the 415 Palestinians who were deported to Lebanon in December 1992. She wants...