في كتاب كيف ما كنت بحبّك (Beirut, Guilty Pleasures) ، يوثّق الكاتب زافين قيومجيان والمصوّر علي شحادي نهضة وسقوط عدّة معالم بيروتية عريقة قبل، خلال، وبعد الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية في السبعينيات، حتى ثورة 17 تشرين الأول 2019 وامتدادًا إلى ما بعد انفجار مرفأ بيروت في 4 آب 2020 وحقبة فيروس كورونا. تتبّع قيومجيان وشحادي خريطة بيروت بطريقة دائرية تبدأ من إهراءات مرفأ بيروت مرورًا بمبني لوريان، فندق السان جورج والهوليداي إن، برج المرّ، التياترو، نصب ساحة الشهداء، القبضة، البيضة، غرافيتي «التواصل»، بيت بيروت، وانتهاءً بالمتحف الوطني. منطقة التماس هذه شهدت أيّام بيروت الذهبية في الزمن الجميل، وخرّبتها الحرب. شرحّها الكتاب إلى صور غنيّة ونادرة تعود إلى بدايات القرن العشرين والقرن الواحد والعشرين وما بينهما. أخيرًا وليس آخرًا، للكتاب قيمة إضافية متمثّلة بتفاصيل كواليس هذه الأبنية والمعلومات غير المتوقّعة عن كلّ معلم بيروتيّ مذكور ممّا يثير فضول واهتمام كلّ قارئ.

By (author) Rabah, Makram
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Explores the course and the nature of the conflict between the Druze and the Maronites arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon.
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The Druze and the Maronites arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus ''the War of the Mountain'' in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history.He challenges the idea that these group identities were constructed by their respective centres of power within the Maronite and Druze community, providing an alternative to the prevailing meta-narrative. Telling the stories of the many people who took part in these events, or who simply suffered as a consequence, helps to expose the intrinsic motives which led to this conflict and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Lebanese historical scholarship.
Description
The Druze and the Maronites arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus ''the War of the Mountain'' in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history.He challenges the idea that these group identities were constructed by their respective centres of power within the Maronite and Druze community, providing an alternative to the prevailing meta-narrative. Telling the stories of the many people who took part in these events, or who simply suffered as a consequence, helps to expose the intrinsic motives which led to this conflict and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Lebanese historical scholarship.
Biographical note
Makram Rabah, Lecturer in the Department of History, the American University of Beirut.

It was just like any other day, being stuck in Beirut traffic with nothing to do but look around when I noticed the Arabic word Mahrooseh (protected) on the back of a large truck in front of me. As I was there for a while, I started noticing the detailed art and hand-drawn vernacular calligraphy, the evil eye, the cedars and many decorative patterns. That was when I was inspired to begin this journey of photographing and documenting as many trucks as I could all over Lebanon.

Lebanon, a country that is small in size, yet large in its cultural diversity. From its rare and beautiful traditions are the sayings on most trucks, especially the ones for goods transportation that are common across the country. Wherever you are you will rarely find a truck without a proverb painted on it; be it a saying, a joke, part of a song, or a passing thought. They are beautifully decorated to elaborate the meaning. But most of them are used to ward off the evil eye.

Falak Shawwa is a photographer with a passion to document the experiences and journeys of different people and the richness of their cultures. Her work has been exhibited in London, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Dubai, Beirut and Cyprus.

True stories of survival, strength, and solidarity

On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion in the Beirut port decimated much of the capital city. The notoriously corrupt and criminally negligent Lebanese government was nowhere to be found. Instead, ordinary people were forced to fend for themselves in extraordinary situations.

They took on the monumental cleanup effort on ground zero. They set up makeshift online resources to find loved ones in hospitals that were overwhelmed. They pulled strangers out of the rubble, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. They set up mental health lines, launched missing persons platforms. They took care of neighbors and comforted one another through tragic losses.

This book is an anthology of creative nonfiction that chronicles their real stories as told by the writers who interviewed them. More than individual accounts, these stories are the product of a collective writing process to archive history and continue to resist injustice.

100% of the royalties will be donated to support victims of the explosion.

The Beirut Central Commercial house
The package includes 170+ pieces, the steps and construction map as well as a history card about the type of the house.
When you raise it up your home will be 29 cm in height, 37 cm in length, and 25 cm in width.

Just embrace the Glory of Beirut and its houses. The Triple arcs if they speak, can tell you endless stories about the beauty of the streets, the magnificence of the villas, and the richness of the commercial stores that were filled with all that you can imagine from the East and the West. The houses that witnessed the rise of the cultural revolution, the poets, the painters the musicians, the dancers, the bankers, and historic leaders.

You can take a peak from its windows and actually see people having dinner, laughing, dancing, and listening to Fairouz on a sunny morning. The porches of Beirut were such a sight, you could drink coffee watching the entire city pass by you and say Marhaba and Al Salamo Alaykom even without knowing who you are!

P.S try to paint your home so you take the fun to the next level.

This house will give you the spirit of Beirut wherever you are.

Central Hall House, combining Western European and Near Eastern styles, has existed in Beirut and throughout Lebanon since the mid-19th century and continued to be built, in various forms, until the mid-20th century.

Fairouz, from singing in her mother’s kitchen to becoming “Lebanon’s Ambassador to the Stars”. Discover the story of a musician from Beirut who revolutionized Arabic music and captivated the world.

Bright Lebanese Legends is a collection of stories from Lebanon, a tiny country in the Middle East whose legends dreamt so big and shone so bright, that they made the world a better place. From Lebanon to the world.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky

The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms.

Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.