My Port of Beirut / Lamia Ziadé ; translated by Emma Ramadan.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ziadé, Lamia, author.

Contributor:

• Ramadan, Emma, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Explosions--Lebanon--Beirut.
• Lebanon--History--21st century.
• Ziadé, Lamia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

Beautifully illustrated, intimately personal and politically trenchant account of Beirut's catastrophic 2020 port explosion.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Prologue: August 4, 2020
• 1. The Sirens of the Port of Beirut
• 2. The Heroes
• 3. "A steamer enters the haze of the Port of Beirut"
• 4. The Sorcery of Objects
• 5. The Orthodox Hospital
• 6. Lady Cochrane
• 7. The Third Basin
• 8. My Sister's Friends
• 9. Guilt
• 10. Sacy and Noun
• 11. The Criminals
• 12. Report on the Port, 1956
• 13. My Father's Stubbornness
• 14. A Peaceful and Gentle People
• 15. My Sister on the Telephone
• 16. Who?
• 17. Beirut, Nest of Spies
• 18. The Port, Like the Country
• 19. Thawra, Birth of a Nation
• 20. October 17
• 21. Things Take a Turn.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780745348148

OCLC:

1378930660