Beirut
By: Samir Kassir ; foreword by Robert Fisk ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9780520256682
Subjects: Beirut (Lebanon) -- History
Work titles: Histoire de Beyrouth.
Description: Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: Paris : Fayard, c2003, under title Histoire de Beyrouth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.