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Author Ziyādah, Khālid

Title Neighborhood and boulevard : reading through the modern Arab city / Khalid Ziadeh ; translated by Samah Selim
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 166 pages) : illustrations
Series Theory in the world
Theory in the world.
Contents The Plaza * The Ottoman Cafe * The Seaport * The Christian Alley * The French Zone * Hill and Plain * The Market * Pleasure Boulevards
Preface -- The public plaza -- The Ottoman café -- The seaport -- The Christian quarter -- The French district -- The hill and the plain -- The market -- The boulevards
Summary The first volume in the groundbreaking new series Theory Around the World, Neighborhood and Boulevard combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the Arabic
Print version record
Subject Cities and towns -- Lebanon
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Cities and towns
Travel
SUBJECT Tripoli (Lebanon) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83022065
Tripoli (Lebanon) -- Description and travel
Subject Lebanon
Lebanon -- Tripoli
Form Electronic book
Author Selim, Samah
ISBN 9780230120075
0230120075
Other Titles Ḥārāt al-ahl, jāddāt al-lahw. English