This book stages a sharp dialogue between Picasso’s Guernica and wartime Beirut, not as ornamental comparison but as a question about art, catastrophe, and witness. Fawwaz Traboulsi asks how the artistic image can illuminate collective destruction and how the city itself becomes a visual and ethical text to be read through ruin and life together. The book matters because it links the aesthetic to the political without dissolving one into the other, turning cultural criticism into a way of understanding war and the modern city.
Guernica-Beirut: Art and Life between Picasso's Mural and an Arab City at War
غيرنيكا - بيروت: الفن والحياة بين جدارية ليكاسو ومدينة عربية في الحرب