| Description |
xxxv, 220 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Map of east Beirut -- Introduction -- Timeline : a build-up of Lebanon's 2019 economic crisis -- Part I : The Ultimate Blow -- Chapter 1 : The Blast -- Chapter 2 : Tragedy and Loss -- Chapter 3 : Mayhem -- Chapter 4 : Stamina -- Part II : The Myth of Resilience -- Chapter 5 : Lebanon : A Dysfunctional Compromise -- Chapter 6 : History Repeats Itself -- Chapter 7 : Survival -- Chapter 8 : Nowhere Safe -- Part Three : The Impossible Quest for Justice -- Chapter 9 : Second-Class Citizen -- Chapter 10 : Abuse and Racism -- Chapter 11 : A Doomed Revolution -- Chapter 12 : Fighting for Justice -- Part Four : Death of a Nation? -- Chapter 13 : Slowly Dying -- Chapter 14 : Grief -- Chapter 15 : Exodus -- Chapter 16 : 'Glorious Days' Gone Forever? -- Afterword |
| Summary |
Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, journalist Dalal Mawad conducted a series of searing interviews with women in Lebanon - weaving an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity.-- Amazon.com. |
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Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, journalist Dalal Mawad conducted a series of searing interviews with women in Lebanon - weaving an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people -- it was the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon's unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the blast happened, and was one of the first journalists to report on the mysterious and devastating explosion. During her reporting, she discovered something else -- that it is the women who stay behind, and it is through their stories that the history of the Middle East must be re-constructed. She set out to record the stories of those she met, the women long discriminated against, and those whose stories are untold. She spoke to mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation's collapse, who remembers Beirut's glory days of the 1960s -- when the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Miles Davis came to Beirut. And then the women like Dalal herself, who have left their home behind. The women in this book all experienced the explosion and suffered unimaginable loss and tragedy, but it is not just this one event that brings them together. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Women -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Social conditions.
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Lebanon -- History -- 1990-
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Women -- Social conditions
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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Lebanon https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkxDDwqVgXRkfpVcpBQMP (OCoLC)fst01206063
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Lebanon -- Beirut
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgXfdtG9wc4KF9GVXCWjC (OCoLC)fst01225260
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1990
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works) (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080104
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Informational works.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781399406215 |
| ISBN |
9781399406253 hardback |
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1399406256 hardback |
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9781399406215 ePub ebook |
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9781399406222 PDF ebook |
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