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Nadya Sbaiti
What's in a City? (Part 2)
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(see Part 1) Last summer, a friend (under some coercion… not from me) gave me a valuable gift – a 1954 Guide to World Travel issued by Pan Am airlines. In the section on Lebanon, it listed the average temperature in August as 83º Fahrenheit (~28º C). August, by far the hottest and most humid month, only 83 degrees? I mean, if you needed any further proof that the world is heating up, consider that the average temperature in Beirut this past summer was well about ...
Keep Reading »Breaking News: "Black Gold" Actually (Dark) Blue Ink
“What we always thought was oil is actually the same stuff you find in a Bic pen,” shocked analysts say. An emergency G7 meeting was called last night in response to the earth shattering news that what has been thought for over a century to be oil – petroleum – is in fact nothing more than the viscous ink used in certain ballpoint pens.
Keep Reading »What's in a City? (Part 1)
One night a few months ago, while spending some time in Beirut, I needed to get from the Sinn al-Fil neighborhood to that of Ras Beirut, and called a taxi to pick me up. After driving around for twenty minutes, it became clear that the cab driver had no idea how to get us out of the urban planning nightmare that is Sinn al-Fil. So we flagged down a family in a silver SUV to ask directions. “Brother, how do I get to Beirut?” the taxi driver asked. SUV driver stared at ...
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Nadya Sbaiti is Assistant Professor of History at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. She is co-editor of the Arab Studies Journal, and a co-founder of Jadaliyya.com.
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