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Beirut-Guernica: A City and a Painting 

Parallel to Guernica, Beirut shows how besieged cities transform into concentrated laboratories of modern political crisis, where the contradictions and catastrophes of Arab history are condensed into a single image.

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Beirut-Guernica: A City and a Painting

Fawwaz Traboulsi

Middle East Report, No. 154, The Uprising: The Next Phase. (Sep. – Oct., 1988), pp. 29-37.

Middle East Report © 1988 Middle East Research and Information Project, Inc. (MERIP)

Themes
Art & Literature
Countries
Lebanon
Published In
Middle East Report (MERIP)
Author
Fawwaz Traboulsi John Berger
Keywords
Arab Politics Arab-israeli Conflict Art & Literature Beirut Bombing Civilian Suffering Guernica Israeli Occupation Lebanese Civil War Memory Middle East Report Picasso Resistance Aesthetics Violence Visual Culture War

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