{"product_id":"beirut-9780520271265","title":"Beirut","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eBeirut\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. Generously illustrated and eloquently written, \u003ci\u003eBeirut\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates contemporary issues of modernity and democracy while at the same time memorably recreating the atmosphere of one of the world's most picturesque, dynamic, and resilient cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the leading voices for progressive change in the Middle East, \u003cb\u003eSamir Kassir \u003c\/b\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eAn-Nahar\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper there, and was a co-founder of the Democratic Left Movement in Lebanon. The author of several other books, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Arab, \u003c\/i\u003e Kassir was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut in June 2005.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50924024037650,"sku":"9780520271265","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9afa4651-71d0-4972-931b-8c2f9ae558e7.jpg?v=1738968702","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beirut-9780520271265","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}