Fin de Siecle Beirut

Contributing to the literature on Ottoman studies, Arab cultural history, and Mediterranean cities, this work traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ot... » 

Contributing to the literature on Ottoman studies, Arab cultural history, and Mediterranean cities, this work traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, it argues that Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. «