The three broad periods we chose for the MULOSIGE project – the colonial period, decolonization, and the contemporary globalising moment – help us draw historical comparisons and find connections, though the timelines do not map neatly onto each other.
MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’
This reading list was contributed by Dr Rita Sakr and addresses the mid-nineteenth-century cultural-geographical dynamics that constructed Beirut as a ‘city of the world’, helping us to consider how its production forms both a ‘crisis of representation’ and a ‘representation of crisis’.
