Visions of Beirut : the urban life of media infrastructure /

Visions of Beirut explores how the creation and circulation of images has defined the cultural imaginaries and spatial contours of the city of Beirut. It analyzes how techniques of visualizing the city have shaped regimes of power and the texture of political events. Hatim El-Hibri draws on fieldwor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	El-Hibri, Hatim, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Mass media > Social aspects > Lebanon > Beirut. Mass media > Political aspects > Lebanon > Beirut. Mass media and culture > Lebanon > Beirut. Beirut (Lebanon) > In mass media.

Table of Contents:

The social life of maps of Beirut
Images of before/after in the economy of postwar construction
Concealment, liveness, and Al Manar TV
The open secret of concealment at the Mleeta Museum.