My Port of Beirut /

My Port of Beirut /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ziadé, Lamia, author.
Uniform title:	Mon port de Beyrouth. English.
Imprint:	London : Pluto Press, 2023. ©2022
Description:	223 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ziadé, Lamia. Ziadé, Lamia. Crises -- Lebanon -- Beirut. Disasters -- Lebanon -- Beirut. Explosions -- Lebanon -- Beirut. Crises. Disasters. Explosions. Beirut (Lebanon) Lebanon -- Beirut.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13475169

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Other authors / contributors:	Ramadan, Emma, translator.
ISBN:	9780745348124 0745348122 9780745348131 9780745348148
Notes:	"First published by P.O.L éditeur as Mon port de Beyrouth, 2021.'--Title page verso. In English, translated from the French.
Summary:	"On the evening of August 4, 2020, an explosion tore through Beirut, leaving nearly 200 people dead, 6,000 injured, and 300,000 homeless. The blast was caused by storing thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate alongside a stash of fireworks--a deadly arrangement about which the government had known but done nothing. For six months straight, French Lebanese author and artist Lamia Ziadé wrote, illustrated, and recorded every new piece of information, every photograph of the wreckage or the wounded. In My Port of Beirut, Ziadé weaves together the play-by-play of the tragedy and the history of Lebanon with her own personal stories and her participation in the 2019 protests against state corruption, laying out the historical and political background that made such a catastrophe possible and, perhaps, inevitable."--Amazon.
Other form:	ebook version : 9780745348131

Table of Contents:

1. The Sirens of the Port of Beirut
2. The Heroes
3. "A steamer enters the haze of the Port of Beirut"
4. The Sorcery of Objects
5. The Orthodox Hospital
6. Lady Cochrane
7. The Third Basin
8. My Sister's Friends
9. Guilt
10. Sacy and Noun
11. The Criminals
12. Report on the Port, 1956
13. My Father's Stubbornness
14. A Peaceful and Gentle People
15. My Sister on the Telephone
16. Who?
17. Beirut, Nest of Spies
18. The Port, Like the Country
19. Thawra, birth of a nation
20. October 17
21. Things take a turn.