Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon

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i n de x 1968, protests of, 99, 101, 125, 191n21 9/11, 3 Aʿtiya, Ahmad Mohammad, 6, 190– 91n15, 191n16 Abdel-Nour, Wafaʾ, xii, 204n10 Abdulsater, Zoha, xii, 216n19 Abou, Sélim, 214n7 Abu al-Faraj, Ghalib Hamza, 185 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 213n4 Abushakra, Rima, 216n14, 218n35 adab, 24–25 Adbusters, 163 ʿAdi, Ibn, 25, 200n80 Adorno, Theodor, 21, 196n57 Afsaruddin, Asma, 200n71 Aghacy, Samira, xii, 205n17 Al-Ahram Weekly, 204n14, 205n19 Al-Akhbar, 212n2 ʿAlawiyya, Burhan, 99, 208n9, 208n11, 208n16; Bayrut, al-Liqaʾ (Beirut, The Meeting), 19, 32, 101–8, 110, 131, 133–34, 136, 142 Alagha, Joseph Elie, 170, 172, 213n5, 219n44, 219n48, 219n53, 219n55, 220n59 alcohol, 163, 219n44, Plate 8. See Johnny Walker anti-alcohol, 168 Algeria, 4 Alice in Wonderland, 83, 88 Allen, Roger, xi, 190n13 Althusser, Louis, 21, 197n58. See interpellation Amal movement, 166. See also Sadr, Musa American Idol, 163 American University of Beirut, 80; archives of, Plate 1, Plate 2, Plate 3, Plate 4. See Universities Amnesty International, 222n5 Al-ʿAmr, Zayn, 178 Anarchism, 173 Andraos, Asma, 163, 219n37 Angus, Gavin, 209n23 Annie Hall, 139 anthropologism, 27, 28, 29, 30. See humanism Antoon, Sinan, 194n50 Aoun, Jean, 214n8 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 1 Arabism, 156, 173, 174; Pan-Arabism, 212n2 Al-ʿAris, Ibrahim, 207n1, 208–9n18, 209n20–21 Aristotle Affair. See Gouguenheim, Sylvain Arkoun, Mohammad, 25, 26, 200n75, 200n78, 200n79 Armbrust, Walter, 213n4, 214n6 Al-Asad, Bashar, 159, 163, 218n28 Al-Asad, Hafez, 163, 213n4, 217– 218n28, 220n62 Asfour, Nan, 208n10 Al-Ashqar, Yusuf Habshi, 185 Assaf, Layla, 101 assassination, 131, 147, 155, 161, 211n30; of Rafik al-Hariri, 80, 132, 147–48, Index 240 Berbers, 26 Bergé, Marc, 200n75 Beydoun, Abbas, xiii, xvi, 40 Bint al-Haris, 97 Blanchot, Maurice, 30 Blanford, Nicholas, 214n6 Blumenberg, Hans, 198n66 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 24 Böll, Heinrich, 53 Bond, James, 98 Boulos, Aimée, 207n1 Bouwsma, William J., 198n65, 198n67 Boym, Svetlana, 195n53 Bracken, H. M., 195n55 British Raj, 173 Brussels, 99 Burgess, Anthony, 62 Bush, George, 171 Byzantine Empire, 25 Capitalism, 3, 5, 118, 122, 136, 151, 174–75, 183, 210–11n26 Carpentier, Alejo, 53 Carter, Michael G., 200n71 Cassirer, Ernst, 196n55, 199n70 Catholicism, 63 Cedar Revolution, 157, 214n7, 215n13. See also Independence Uprising censorship, 100 Certeau, Michel de, 216n16 Chahine, Jessy, 214n11 Chamoun, Jean, 99, 100, 208n9, 211n27; Tayf al-Madina (In the Shadows of the City), 33, 125–31, 142, 222n8 Chechnya, 4 Chehabi, H. E., 213n5, 219n44 Chemaly, Rita, 214n6 Choucair, Walid, 216n15 Christianity, 2, 10, 13, 26, 27, 32, 91–93, 105, 150, 175, 198n64, 200n74, Plate 4 Catholicism, 63 Christians, 36, 61, 169; New Testament, 83; Phalangism, 28; Syriac Christians, 25 Cicero, 25 civil war. See Lebanese Civil War Codsi, Jean-Claude, 101 Coetzee, J. M., 53 Cold War, 2, 3, 35, 212n2; post-cold war, 4, 27; proxy war, 3, 154, 212n2 153–54, 159–60, 165, 176, 214n6, 214n10, 215n13, 216n19, 218n30, 220n60. See also execution Al-Aswany, Alaa, 42 ʿAtwan, Hussein, 193n46, 194n47 Auque, Roger, 109 authoritarianism, 6, 156, 166, 171, 173, 175 ʿAwwad, Lewis, 190n12 ʿAwwad, Tawfiq, 7, 191n20 Ayoub, Charles, 212n2 Azarm, Raymond, 218n36 ʿAzar, Zhafer Henri, 207n1, 208n9, 208n12, 208n17 Al-Azmeh, Aziz, 192n27 Baʿathism, 28, 217n28 Badawi, M. M., 7, 190n11, 191n19 Baghdadi, Maroun, 99, 209n18 Bayrut, ya Bayrut, 100; Hamasat, 109; Hors la vie (Beyond Life), 32, 108–17, 131, 133–34, 136, 142, 207n2 Balqaziz, Abdallah, 213n5 Barakat, Halim, 185 Barakat, Hoda, 39, 71, 185, 204n14; Hajar al-Dahik (The Stone of Laughter), 32, 37, 51–62, 69, 95, 185, 203n5, 205n16; Tiller of the Waters, 37 Barakat, Najwa, 39, 51, 185, 205–6n23, 206n26–28; Ya Salam, 32, 37, 71–80, 95, 185, 203n5, 203n7 Bayn Hayakil Baʿlabakk, 96 Bayyaʾ al-Khawatim, 97 Bedouin, 14, 213n4 Behrens-Abouseif, Doris, 200n73 Beirut, 39–40, 52, 58, 61, 63, 91, 95, 101, 103–5, 109, 117, 122, 125, 126, 131, 148, 152, 167, 175, 182; Beau Rivage Hotel, 150; City Palace Cinema, 81–87, 89; downtown reconstruction project, 118, 209–10n23, 215n12; Holiday Inn, 19, 32, 103, 104, 108, 110, Plate 2; al-Khoury Beshara, 87; Martyrs’ Square, 66–69, 149, 153, 155, 205n15, 214n6, 218n34; Sanaya Garden, 41; Villa Jabre, 150 Beirut Spring, 157, 215n12. See also Independence Uprising Beissinger, Mark R., 216n17 Belgium, 101 Index 241 Donohue, John, xi, 200n75, 204n9 Droit, Roger Pol, 199n69 Druze, 10, 36, 61, 169 Dufal, Blaise, 199n69 Dupré, Louis...