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MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’
MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’

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MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’

By admin_mulosige|2019-08-09T12:25:58+01:00August 9th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading, Time Periods|Tags: Beirut, cartography, Colonialism, literature, newspapers, photography, post-war|

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’.