Denial, madness, and delusion are tropes that musicians and writers commonly use to describe Beirut in music and literature. The city’s history, and its perpetual equilibrium between fragmented realities, certainly contribute to its struggle for self-reflection. But in a country where history bo..
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(Auto)-Mobility in the Global Middle East (Part 2)
A workshop was held at the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham (UK) on Friday 6 November 2015, on the theme
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New CLUSTER Publications: Learning from Cairo and Archiving the City in Flux
CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) aims at establishing a critical space for urban discourse. CLUSTER engages critical theorization while being grounded in professional practice, negotiating the blurred boundaries be..
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Greater Israel Bus Connections & Across the Wall
The two maps presented here offer subtly different representations of the same set of Israeli public transport data, collected from bus.co.il. Both plot the same Israeli bus routes as they travel to, or via, the same illegal settlements in the Pa..
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