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OverviewIn Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images have shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging from maps, urban plans, and aerial photographs to live television and drone-camera footage, El-Hibri traces how the technologies and media infrastructure that visualize the city are used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial, economic, and military mapping projects helped produce and govern Beirut's spaces. In the 1990s, the imagery of its post-civil war downtown reconstruction cast Beirut as a site of financial investment in ways that obscured its ongoing crises. During and following the 2006 Israel/Hizbullah war, Hizbullah's use of live television broadcasts of fighting and protests along with its construction of a war memorial museum at a former secret military bunker demonstrate the tension between visualizing space and the practices of concealment. Outlining how Beirut's urban space and public life intertwine with images and infrastructure, El-Hibri interrogates how media embody and exacerbate the region's political fault lines. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hatim El-HibriPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781478010449ISBN 10: 1478010444 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 11 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNote on Translation and Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut 21 2. Images of Before/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction 64 3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV 105 4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum 144 Conclusion 178 Notes 183 References 217 Index 247ReviewsA 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 deconstructs masterfully outmoded assumptions about Lebanon's political economy and societies, unravelling instead the everyday visual infrastructures that sustain and reproduce forces such as sectarianism or 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 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 * 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 * Author InformationHatim El-Hibri is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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