Transit Beirut.(Mosaic)(Book Review)

The Middle East | May 1, 2004| | Copyright

The first image that hits you in the newly published Transit Beirut is the cover. Surely that building collapsing amidst crumbling masonry is a vignette from Lebanon's ruinous 16-year-long civil war. But in the foreground you spy a man wielding a bullhorn, seated in what looks like a director's chair. Well then, a movie set, perhaps? In fact, our would-be Spielberg is merely a contractor overseeing the demolition of an old building, to make way for Beirut's much-touted multi-billion dollar reconstruction.

Yet neither initial deduction is entirely wrong. Reminders of ...

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