Living revolution, financial collapse and pandemic in Beirut: Notes on temporality, spatiality, and “double liminality”

Abstract

This article reflects on the experience of living an exceptional year of revolution, financial collapse, pandemic (and later, explosion) in Lebanon since October 2019. Based on auto-ethnography, the article grapples with the experience of “double liminality” by juxtaposing the revolutionary moment of publicness, enthusiasm and clarity; to the pandemic moment of isolation, rumination and anxiety. © 2020 Brill Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.