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Artworks - Photography
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| Rawi
Hage |
Writer & Visual
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| Crime
:: Pinholes
:: Monastery
Photography |
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"The
images for the most parts are traces of passages through various
locations places and countries that I have lived in. The photographs
were never intended as public documents. It is the subjective
and the personal that I have emphasized, shamelessly, the personal
and private space or encounter that I have stressed. It is in
the diffusion and the display of the work that I hoped to transform
the personal into a part of the collective memory."
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Articles - Essays & Research
- Books excerpts - Stories
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| Ayssar
Arida |
Architect & Urban
Designer |
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Quantum
City Book Excerpts
"Quantum City proposes a description of quantum theory and the concepts
of the 'new' physics of the 20th century, in a concise, non-technical language
that is enjoyable to read and easy to understand for lay-people."
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this, it develops a conceptual language that can then be applied
to different disciplines, in particular to urban design, where
it is clear that the new vision can provide powerful insights into
the growth and self-organisation of cities at different scales.
The new language thus permits a higher degree of integration between
the different disciplines of the city, and promises to be a useful
metaphor for the development of various theories for the 21st century
city." |
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MonoPolyPolis:
Banknotes & Beirut Article
"This presentation [First presented at "My Rights to My City" Workshop,
Alexendria, Egypt, Nov. 2000] will address the issue of identity, national,
cultural or otherwise, through the eerie parallel between the gradual destruction
of the country's physical form and the gradual abstraction of the National Currency's
design." |
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| Ayssar
Arida & Michael
Stanton |
Architects |
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Therapeutic
Urbanism? Article
Starting with the statement that "cities are the most significant
repositories of identity", this article is about the therapeutic
role of urbanism -"often misused, the decision makers often
opting for the easy erasure of the traces of conflict, while designers
often opt for a fetishization of the same traces" relatively
to post-war city reconstruction and the notion of memory "which
should not be eradicated because this would induce a form of civic
amnesia". According to the authors, "therapeutic urbanism
may heal on the level of the individual, of the citizen/user, and
on that of the urban fabric." |
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| Rawi
Hage |
Writer & Visual
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The
Rat Story
[..."The wide road was once a fancy strip filled with fashionable
stores and tourists, now it is under a sniper’s range, empty,
only plants sprang from beneath the sidewalks’ cracks and lived
below the old arches, shone in front of the looted stores, grew from
the bellies of decaying sand bags, and dwelt in occupied deserted
government buildings that longed for the old days when lazy bureaucrats
strolled in long hallways,"…] |
The
Jinni's Women Story
[..."I went to the bathroom; I saw the ax leaning at the door
on the outside porch. I went straight to it and came back with it
in my hand. I faced the brute; he smiled, and said to me, So you
found it eh. We both laughed and I killed him. I went upstairs. She
had her baggage ready. I drove his truck, she sang all the way to
Cliff Crete town. I finished the book, it was a success. At the end
a bomb fell and everyone died except me and the neighbor’s
girl"...] |
The
Little Boy and His Friend the Young Fighter
Story
[..."When the little boy and his friend the young fighter arrived
at the war zone, the young fighter stopped the car, pulled a beautiful
new gun with a silver colour and holds it in his hand. It is a shinny
gun and can make many empty shell the little boy shouts with joy
and smiles to himself"...] |
The
Signora Story
[..."A heroic death, yes a lovely explosive death. War finally
came and offered her that prospect. Combat and war, she was surrounded
by its smell, a smell of powder, of screaming cadavers, of lightning,
[...] All of it made her secretly cheer like a spectator in the bloodiest
arena of all. Gore! Now it was the human turn to be butchered, stabbed
underneath brilliant red cloth that is held, waved, and danced by
strong, graceful arms"...] |
Two
militiamen knocked at my door Story
[..."People in the neighbourhood have seen you with him. People
like whom? I asked in defiance. The grocer Abou-Dolly told us that
you took walks with him. We heard a great deal about you. Every one
knows that you are a hashash. Where were you that night? I did not
do it"...] |
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Itinéraires
identitaires chez des immigrants libanais de Montréal
: le cas de l’identité confessionnelle
Thesis
Thesis for the Master of Studies; Université de Montréal,
July 2003.
"This master’s thesis examines the importance of denominational identity
among Lebanese immigrants in Montreal. This topic is motivated by three reasons:
1) the longstanding Lebanese
debate on the definition of Lebanese identity;
2) the fact that many researchers argue that Lebanese identity,
even in a migratory context, is still structured around denominational
affiliation;
3) the need to broaden the scope of French Canadian historiography
by focussing on migratory and ethnic phenomena.
This research takes as a point of departure the working hypothesis
that, in a more secularised environment, the Lebanese immigrants
of Montreal can be expected to build a more secular identity. This
hypothesis is verified by employing oral history tools. Eleven
Lebanese immigrants of Montreal of various denominational affiliations
were interviewed in order to understand how they define their identity.
their thoughts, while providing information about them and their
behaviour, especially as the latter relate to their denominational
affiliation. The transcription of these eleven interviews constitutes
the corpus analysis."
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Beyrouth
: reconstruire la ville, reconstruire la vie
Thesis
Thesis published in June 1996 by the Political Science Institute
of Bordeaux (France) as a two years research work for a bachelor
degree.
"A testimony of what Beirut used to be, as the basis for an analysis of
what it could become... Solidere was just born then, and the economic crisis
was not even underlying. Yet, it seemed to me that the roots of upcoming troubles
were obvious. And 7 years later, the Lebanese have not even begun to rebuild
their common space of living. The no mans land - the former "green line" -
remains so today, be it sweeter, cleaner, richer. Instead of a melting pot, the
city center is nothing but a border between many worlds. The essence of a battlefield,
in other words." His thesis offers an analysis of the following points:
The Urban Inequalities in 1975; the Disappearance of the Center and the New Forms
of Urbanization; The announced Renaissance of the Lebanese Capital; Beirut: the
object of Debate. |
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ALCHEMY Project
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Turbulence Imageries
for the Alchemy Project
"Turbulent flows are omnipresent in nature, for example in the flow of water
in the Seine or the flow of air above a Sannine. These images are taken from
a laboratory experiment that studies the effect of rotation on the complicated
motion of fluids. For instance, we would like to understand the effect of the
earth's rotation on the motion of the atmosphere or the ocean." |
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References
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A number
of new book titles have been added in the books column, mainly titles,
by Lebanese authors, of novels written in Arabic, English and French
-originally or translated-. Most of these titles are those of books
published in 2003, even though a number of other titles were added
among the novels as well as the essays, that were published earlier.
Hoping these newly listed titles will bring more information about Lebanese authors
as well as on Lebanon, this section, as all others, is open to suggestions concerning
references anyone knows about and considers relevant and interesting for the
project.
>> References |
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