Availability:In StockContributor:Samir Kassir, M. B. Debevoise (Translator), Robert Fisk (Foreword by)Publish date:2010-11-15Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520271265ISBN-10:520271262UPC:9780520271265Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle EastSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCS8XKPSE2
Beirut
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, 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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520271265ISBN-10:520271262UPC:9780520271265Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle EastSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCS8XKPSE2
One of the leading voices for progressive change in the Middle East, Samir Kassir (1960-2005) taught at the Institut des Sciences Politiques of the Universit? Saint-Joseph in Beirut, worked as a journalist and editorial writer for the daily An-Nahar newspaper there, and was a co-founder of the Democratic Left Movement in Lebanon. The author of several other books, including Being Arab, Kassir...
Publisher: University of California Press
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Samir Kassir, M. B. Debevoise (Translator), Robert Fisk (Foreword by)
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