Sources
The sources presented below were used as part of the contextual research of this archive. The academic sources shaped the understanding of the urbicide in Beirut, while the remaining sources: archival, artistic and miscellaneous helped in the visualisation and verification of demolitions and the resultant political holes.
The sources are a selection of an ongoing collection of references and is not to be regarded as a comprehensive one.
Sources:
- Cooke, Miriam. "Beirut Reborn: The Political Aesthetics of Auto-Destruction." The Yale Journal of Criticism 15, no. 2. (2002): 393-424. Accessed January 15, 2019.
- Ghandour, Marwan, and Mona Fawaz. "Spatial Erasure: Reconstruction Projects in Beirut." Architecture Publications (Spring 2010). Accessed January 10, 2019.
- Khalaf, Samir , and Philip S. Khoury. Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction. Leiden; New York: Brill, 1993.
- Makdisi, Saree. "Laying Claim to Beirut: Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere." Critical Inquiry 23, no. 3 (1997): 660-705.
- Saghieh, Khaled. "1990s Beirut: Al-Mulhaq, Memory and the Defeat." e-flux journal, no. #97 (2019). .
- Salam, Assem. L’amar Wa’l Maslaha L’amma Fi L’amara Wa’l Madina [Reconstruction and the Public Interest in Architecture and the City]. Beirut: Dar Aljadid, 1996.
- Sawalha, Aseel. "The Reconstruction of Beirut: Local Responses to Globalization." City & Society 10, no. 1. (1998): 133-47. Accessed January 6, 2019.
- Schmid, Heiko. "Privatized Urbanity or a Politicized Society? Reconstruction in Beirut after the Civil War." European Planning Studies 14, no. 3. (2006): 365-81. Accessed December 18, 2018.
Books:
Salam, Assem. L’amar Wa’l Maslaha L’amma Fi L’amara Wa’l Madina [Reconstruction and the Public Interest in Architecture and the City]. Beirut: Dar Aljadid, 1996.
Beyhum, Nabil. L’imar Wal’maslaha L’aamma, Fil’ijtimaa Wal’thakafat: Maana L’madina Soukkanuha [Reconstruction and the Public Interest in Meeting and Culture: The Meaning of the City Its Citizens]. Beirut: Dar Aljadid, 1995.
Archival Sources:
Press Sources:
Douglas, Jehl. "Wrecked by Years of Civil War Beirut Is Rising from the Ashes." New York Times, (New York, N.Y.), December 23, 1995.
Artistic Sources:
Films
- El Haber, Simon. Re-Destruction | Iaadat tadmir, 2021. 42:00.
- Salhab, Ghassan. Terra incognita, 2002. 120:00.
- Saab, Jocelyne. Once upon a time in Beirut, 1994. Lebanon: Aleph Productions. 01:41:00.
Photography:
- El-Khoury, Fouad. Traces of war, 1994-1997.
- El-Khoury, Fouad. Beirut City Centre, 1991.
- Solidere. The Chronicle. Lebanon, 2012. .
- Watchi, Jean-Pierre. Atlal 95. 2nd Edition ed. Beirut: Plan BEY, 2018.
Miscellaneous Sources: