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Article: Transit Beirut.(Mosaic)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Middle East
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
- Author:
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The first image that hits you in the newly published Transit Beirut is the cover. Surely that building collapsing amidst crumbling masonry is a vignette from Lebanon's ruinous 16-year-long civil war. But in the foreground you spy a man wielding a bullhorn, seated in what looks like a director's chair. Well then, a movie set, perhaps? In fact, our would-be Spielberg is merely a contractor overseeing the demolition of an old building, to make way for Beirut's much-touted multi-billion dollar reconstruction.
Yet neither initial deduction is entirely wrong. Reminders of conflict run like unresolved leitmotifs throughout Transit Beirut's 21 essays, poems and short ...
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