Beirut / Samir Kassir ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise ; foreword by Robert Fisk

Translation of : Histoire de Beyrouth

Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-599) and index

The eyes of the mind --From the ancient to the modern world. Beirut before Beirut --The great transformation --The Ibrahim Pasha era --The roads from Damascus --A window on Ottoman modernity --The awakening. A cultural revolution --Between Boston and Rome --The horizon of the world --Uncertain identities --The capital of the mandate. France broadens its mission --The French city --Grand-Liban and Petite Paris --A crucible for independence --The cosmopolitan metropolis of the Arabs. The Switzerland of the East --Beirut, male and female --The pleasures of the world --Éochard's lost wagers --The city of every danger. On the knife's edge --The end of innocence --Beirut, o Beirut! --To be or to have been