In the on-going debate around the reconstruction of the city center of Beirut what emerges is the issue of memory and its role in recreating and-or reimagining an urban past. Given the sense of loss and uncertainty that ...
For centuries, Beirut's history has been tied to the destinies of the great empires that succeeded one another in the Middle East. Successively under Egyptian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine rule, it shared ...