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Beirut - where plastic surgery meets the emotional intensity of the legendary diva Umm Kulthum, and Lebanese foodies go on the rampage. "Transit Beirut" is a unique anthology of complex urban experience that brings together personal writing, essays, journalism, short stories, photography and animation. The view is wide: from fiction to documentary, and everything in between. Beirut is undergoing an energetic process of rediscovery and reinvention by its own inhabitants, many of whom are only now returning to the city. With new and established Arab writers together for the first time, "Transit Beirut" oscillates between sarcastic humour and serious exploration of the tensions and conflicts in a society undergoing reconstruction. Things are never what they seem; students express themselves in the language of military conquest and athletes train to 'defeat' cholesterol. Here, TE Lawrence, Orientalism and a PLO grandmother's revolutionary milk interweave ...
Contents
Living between Worlds by Roseanne Khalaf - There's No Place Like Home by Leila Mroue - Cartoons by Amy Khouri - War Milk by Zeina B Ghandour -Rabih Alamuddine on Noses - Mai Ghoussoub on Beauty - Hasan Daoud on Exercising on the Corniche - Hazem Saghieh on Beirut from 1982-1988 - Reine Mahfouz: photographs of Palestinian refugee camps - Red Walls by Nadine Touma - Poetry by Casimiro de Brito and Hyam Yared - Hasan Daoud on suburbs and supermarkets - Abbas El Zein: A Sluggish Countdown to War - Syrian Underwear: a picture essay by Rana Salam + Thierry van Biesen - Garden of the Two Martyrs by Fadi Tuyfali - Road As Ruin by Karl Sharro - Conqueror of the Dollar by Hasan Daoud - Benches by Omar Sabbagh - Fast Food photo essay by Maher Kassar + Ziad - Unrequited Love: Kamal Kassar and Tarab by Malu Halasa - Music Diaries by Hala Sourji - Garden of Forgiveness: a picture essay by Alexandra Asseily - short story by Nada Al Awar - Hasan Daoud on Henry Beenes Restaurant
