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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys -- Introduction -- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil- War Lebanon -- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence -- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu -- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism -- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut -- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia -- 7. The Gay Gaze and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ -- 8. "Seeing Oneself" and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz -- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies -- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life -- Conclusion. Struggling for Difference -- Notes -- Glossary of Transliterated Arabic Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

Einstellung zu den Großmächten und zur politischen
Orientierung des Landes.

Themen: Einstellung zu verschiedenen Nationen; Vorstellungen über die
politische Orientierung des Landes (Ost- oder Westorientierung);
Einschätzung der Glaubwürdigkeit der Politik der Großmächte; Beurteilung
der Entwicklung des Potentials der Großmächte auf dem politischen und
militärischen Gebiet; Vorbildcharakter des amerikanischen, sowjetischen
und chinesischen Lebensstils für das eigene Land; Einstellung zur
Abrüstung, zu den Abrüstungsbemühungen der Großmächte, zum Verbot der
Atomwaffentests und zu Atomwaffen; Reaktionen auf die Kuba-Krise und
Beurteilung der Wahrscheinlichkeit eines nuklearen Konflikts;
Beurteilung der sowjetisch-chinesischen Beziehungen; Radiobesitz.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Konfession.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction by Charles Glass -- 1: The Centre of the Centre of the Middle East -- 2: A Day in the Life of the St George Hotel Bar -- 3: The First Draft of History - St George Hotel Bar Version -- 4: The Truth Emerges -- 5: The Coup That Never Was -- 6: Spies and Friends - Kim Philby -- 7: Spies and Friends - The CIA and Others -- 8: It's a Dirty Game, It's a Deadly Game -- 9: Yes, Mr Getty -- 10: A Bribe as Big as the St George -- 11: Rogues -- 12: Between the Prince and the Prime Minister -- 13: Strange Bedfellows -- 14: Careless Eden? Sceptical Nasser -- 15: Green with Money -- 16: Sisters of Men -- 17: A World No More -- 18: Lebanon Finale - The Beginning of Terror -- A Note on the Author -- Index -- Copyright.

A twelve-year-old girl writes an essay that extols revenge to impress her teacher, and is surprised to receive criticism rather than praise. ?Revenge', Mrs Nomy insists, is ?the most cowardly' human behaviour. Years later, having fled Beirut, she reflects upon the devastating role revenge has played in her country. Might she have found it so easy to forgive if she had stayed? Or might she, too, have contemplated retribution? A compelling and humane book, which abounds in courage and compassion. ?One of those rare books that leaves its readers able to breathe more deeply, with a renewed sens

ow can I write about Beirut? How can I collect it all into onevolume: the years of pain; of watching a world collapse whiletrying to stave off that collapse; the layers of memories andhopes, of tragedy and even sometimes comedy, of violence and kindness, of courage and fear? Above all, how can I express my strange love for this mutilated city; how to explain, both to myself and to others, the lingering magic of the place that has kept me and so many others clinging to its wreckage, refusing to let go, refusing to abandon it?