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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xv |
Translator's Note | p. xxi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Abbreviations | p. xxv |
Prologue: The Eyes Of The Mind | p. 1 |
From the Ancient to the Modern World | |
Beirut before Beirut | p. 33 |
The Great Transformation | p. 80 |
The Ibrahim Pasha Era | p. 96 |
The Roads from Damascus | p. 109 |
A Window on Ottoman Modernity | p. 129 |
The Awakening | |
A Cultural Revolution | p. 163 |
Between Boston and Rome | p. 180 |
The Horizon of the World | p. 203 |
Uncertain Identities | p. 227 |
The Capital of the Mandate | |
France Broadens Its Mission | p. 251 |
The French City | p. 279 |
Grand-Liban and Petit Paris | p. 301 |
A Crucible for Independence | p. 327 |
The Cosmopolitan Metropolis of the Arabs | |
The Switzerland of the East | p. 347 |
Beirut, Male and Female | p. 371 |
The Pleasures of the World | p. 385 |
Écochard's Lost Wagers | p. 409 |
The City Of Every Danger | |
On the Knife's Edge | p. 439 |
The End of Innocence | p. 468 |
Beirut, O Beirut! | p. 494 |
Epilogue: To Be Or To Have Been | p. 521 |
Notes | p. 549 |
Glossary of Arabic and Turkish Terms | p. 583 |
Bibliography | p. 589 |
Photographic Credits | p. 601 |
Index | p. 603 |
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