MER Article Reconstructing History in Central Beirut With the project to develop central Beirut now well underway, the Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut’s Central District -- better known by its French acronym Solidere -- has expropriated legally most of the land in the ancient city center. Previous holders of the property rights have Saree Makdisi • 8 min read
MER Article Layoun and Boullata Mary Layoun, Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology (Princeton, 1990). Issa Boullata, Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought (SUNY, 1990). Saree Makdisi • 4 min read
