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In previous numbers, International Review published several news items about the field hospital set up by the ICRC in Beirut. The article printed below, written in July 1976, gives an idea of the serious tasks carried out, quite often under the most difficult conditions, by the men and women who, under the sign of the red cross, seek to bring relief to the victims.

Edward Said, author of the controversial book "Orientalism" and one of the most versatile Arab/American intellectuals, gave two dazzling lectures at the American University of Beirut campus on the 3rd and 4th of January 1995.

In the summer of 2001 I was granted access to the registers (sijills) of the Ottoman Muslim court (al-mahkama al-sharciyya) of Beirut. These records, housed in the offices of a functioning court - the court attached to ImamcAli's mosque on Tariq al-Jadida in Beirut, occupy two bookshelves, tightly squeezed behind hundreds of volumes of the court's current files - the vast majority of which nowadays pertain to family law. The closet-sized room also doubles as the office of Mr.cAli Al-Dacuq whose occupation it was (and I assume, still is) to file and locate documents for an endless stream of worried people. Despite the dust, noise, and torrid heat, I managed, largely thanks to Mr. Dacuq's dogged optimism and good cheer, to conduct my own research and to document the holdings of the Archive.

The true story of a woman by the name of Qamar who was the 'last Jew in Beirut' and the protection given to her and her relatives by the Kurdish family of Jamīl and Amīnah Milhou in the historic Jewish quarter of Wādī Abū Jamīl centred around the Sinnou Building, during the first desperate years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–77). Eventually attracting international press coverage and the attention of PLO Chairman Yāssir 'Arafāt due to an article in the Lebanese daily al-Nahār which mistakenly identified the males of the Milhou family as PLO fighters, the story of Qamar and her protectors came to symbolize noble humanity in an inhumane war. The account is based on an interview with Fayṣal Milhou.

Outlines relationships between the political and religious establishments in Sunni community of Beirut, Lebanon, since 1946, focusing on the emergence of a new religious group, the Ahbash.

Die Schwierigkeit von Zugehörigkeit in einer Stadt, die sich durch Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau ständig im Wandel befindet, ist eines der Themen, mit denen der libanesische Regisseur Ghassan Salhab seine Filmfiguren konfrontiert. Die Zerstörung des multikonfessionellen und sozial gemischten Stadtzentrums bereits in den ersten Kriegsjahren, die zu einer Entkernung der Stadt Beirut, zu einer leeren Mitte führte, hat die Auslöschung sozialer Erinnerungsräume zur Folge. Stadtviertel erfahren entsprechend einer kriegsbedingten, zunehmenden Fragmentierung der Stadt massive Veränderungen ihrer Sozialstruktur hin zu kleineren homogenen Einheiten, wodurch die durch stark emotionalisierte Erinnerungen geprägten mentalen Topographien die physische Realität überlagern.

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian is wondering why some Lebanese parties reject a dialogue over a new president; fear may be a reason.