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I have family roots in Beirut, through Palestinian and Armenian grandparents and great-grandparents displaced to Lebanon in the early and mid-twentieth century. I was born in Los Angeles and always loved visiting cities and seeing how they are desig..

Bourj Hammoud, a municipality just east of the Beirut River, is a densely populated residential and commercial district known as much for its sizeable Armenian population as its jewelry markets, small-scale clothing, and shoe manufacturing workshops. Until refugees of the Armenian genocide in Ot..

I was in Lebanon, about six months into my dissertation fieldwork.  As the crowds in Tahrir grew day by day, and all the world watched, I felt at first that I was watching an important symbolic act that would surely fail. Who could imagine that Mubarak, who had the support and blessing of t..