Between a refuge and a battleground: Beirut's discrepant cosmopolitanisms

Geographical Review

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 316-336

  Fregonese, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beirut; Colonialism; Cosmopolitanism; Hotels; Lebanon; Urbicide

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ETHNIC GROUP; MODERNITY; MULTICULTURALISM; NATION STATE; REDEVELOPMENT; REFUGE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VIOLENCE;

BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; LEBANON;

EID: 84865604914     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: 19310846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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