Highly celebrated across the French-speaking world, Beirut is the definitive history of Lebanon’s capital city written by public intellectual, political activist, founding member of the Democratic Left, Samir Kassir, assassinated in 2005. In his last completed work, Kassir takes the reader on a fascinating journey that often reads like a novel, covering Beirut's ancient origins to its modern-day resurrection following the 1975 civil war.

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