Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning by Anouti, Ghida

“…Set in Beirut in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the pseudo-documentary film Tango of Yearning (1998) follows the lives of several subjects who speak of love, loss, dreams, and cinema as they navigate their fragmented postwar city. …”
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Pedestrian-oriented development in Beirut: A framework for estimating urban design impacts on pedestrian flows through modeling, participatory design, and scenario analysis by Sevtsuk, Andres, Kollar, Justin, Pratama, Daniel, Basu, Rounaq, Haddad, Jawad, Alhassan, Abdulaziz, Chancey, Bahij, Halabi, Mohamad, Makhlouf, Rawad, Abou-Zeid, Maya

“…This framework was used in conjunction with a participatory design process in Beirut, Lebanon to estimate pedestrian mobility impacts of three urban design scenarios. …”
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Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…Here, the broad imagery of Marta Czok, as an international artist, born in Beirut (1947) to Polish political refugees, raised in London and, since the seventies, Italian by adoption, focuses on the urban context, exploring the scenes of social life that have made the work of this artist recognizable all over the world. …”
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