{"product_id":"visions-of-beirut-9781478010777","title":"Visions of Beirut","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hatim El-Hibri weaves a narrative that articulates concealment and infrastructure onto a conceptual terrain that transcends the empirical context of Lebanon. This engaging, groundbreaking, and indispensable book makes a truly meaningful and influential intervention in global media studies, Middle East studies, and urban studies.” -- Marwan M. Kraidy, author of * The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisions of Beirut \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling work of careful analysis and creative connections that proposes a historically informed set of powerful readings about the transformations of Beirut's public(s) and spaces. Hatim El-Hibri masterfully deconstructs outmoded assumptions about Lebanon's political economy and societies, unravelling instead the everyday visual infrastructures that sustain and reproduce forces such as sectarianism and financialization. The outcome is an important contribution that implores us to think critically about how image, its mediation, and infrastructures are remaking cities in today's world.” -- Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisions of Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e comes at a crucial moment for the city and for the country, coinciding with the most stringent economic crisis Lebanon has ever faced and in the aftermath of one of the largest nonnuclear explosions ever recorded.... The recent events confirm, once again, El-Hibri’s treatise and the validity of its theoretical framework.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Aya Jazaierly * Information \u0026amp; Culture *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisions of Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lot to its readers. It will be of great interest to scholars of global media, Middle Eastern studies, and urban studies and will make an excellent addition to many graduate-level syllabi.” -- Blake Atwood * International Journal of Middle East Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Translation and Transliteration  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Images of Before\/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction  64\u003cbr\u003e 3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV  105\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum  144\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  178\u003cbr\u003e Notes  183\u003cbr\u003e References  217\u003cbr\u003e Index  247","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867285893463,"sku":"9781478010777","price":17.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010777.jpg?v=1722282598","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-beirut-9781478010777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}