Books by Samir Kassir (1)


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Beirut

Beirut by Samir Kassir EN

Rating: 5     3 Votes
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
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, 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. --from publisher description.
Recommended: 06 Jan 2023


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