Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of
the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

Rafiq Hariri was Lebanon's Silvio Berlusconi: a'self-made'billionaire who became prime
minister and shaped postwar reconstruction. His assassination in February 2005 almost …

Forty years ago, Salim Nasr identified a “crisis of Lebanese capitalism” as a “backdrop” to
the country's civil war. Thirty years after Taif, Lebanese capitalism is facing another crisis …

The article joins literature on urban geopolitics and on affective atmospheres to trace the
intensities of feeling that propagate during escalation and de-escalation of urban conflict in …

'Arab Media Moguls is a landmark contribution that fills a gaping vacuum in the literature on
the nebulous and opaque political economic structures of media ownership in the region. At …

This paper presents the first findings of ongoing research documenting the changing
modalities of governing and organizing the built environment in the past two decades in …

War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the Lebanese Civil War through a
micro-level exploration of how the urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict …

The article discusses the sovereignty issues in Lebanon and the foreign policy in the US as
of 2013. Topics include the assassination of al-Maloumat head Wissam al-Hassan, the …

Beirut has experienced cosmopolitanism and its opposite. It is a site of multicultural
encounters and communal entrenchment: a refuge and a battleground. How and where …