“…Un avión de pasajeros norteamericanos es apresado por unos extremistas islámicos y es conducido a Beirut. El presidente de los Estados Unidos enviará a rescatarlos a sus mejores hombres, un grupo de élite llamado Delta Force, comandado por el coronel Nick Alexander y el mayor Scott McCoy. …”

“…From her childhood in the Balkans as a member of a remarkably openhearted and religious family to her work in India, from attending the victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Hussein to choose peace over war, Mother Teresa was driven by an absolute faith. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LA TRAVESÍA (FRAGMENTOS), EDUARDO WILDE -- TOKIO (FRAGMENTOS), EDUARDO WILDE -- EL DESIERTO AMARILLO Y EL MUNDO FLOTANTE, RODOLFO RABANAL -- DIARIO DE VIAJE: PRIMAVERA DEL 97 EN JERUSALÉN, RODOLFO RABANAL -- NIPONAS, MARTÍN CAPARRÓS -- BANGKOK, '92, MATILDE SÁNCHEZ -- DÍAS DE BEIRUT, EDGARDO COZARINSKY -- III. FICCIONES DE VIAJE -- EN CHANDERNAGOR, LUCIO V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unsettling "Refugees" as a Category: Labeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut -- Part II Protesting Exclusion -- 4. Middle Eastern Refugeehood in the Happiest Place on Earth: Syrians and Iraqis Entering Finland's Welfare State Bureaucracy -- 5. " I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here": An Afghan Refugee's Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kastritsis -- New history for old Istanbul: Late Ottoman encounters with Constantinople in the urban landscape / Göksun Akyürek -- Medieval Arabic archaeologies of the ancient cities of Syria / Edward Zychowicz-Coghill -- (Re)constructing Jarash: History, historiography and the making of the ancient city / Louise Blanke -- Constantinople in the sixteenth-century Maghribī imaginary: The travelogue of ʻAlī al-Tamgrūtī / Amira K. Bennison -- Beirut as a palimpsest: Conflicting present pasts, materiality and interpretation / Assaad Seif…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jahrhunderts / Katharina Gerund Zwischen peace line und green line: Belfast und Beirut im zeitgenössischen Film / Stephanie Schwerter (An)Asthetiken des Konsums. …”

“…Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes. …”

“…Poco después de mudarse a su Beirut natal, Camille recibe una noticia: su padre se está muriendo de enfisema pulmonar. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees -- Part I (Dis)Counting Refugees -- 1 When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security Alibi -- 2 Navigating Precarity, Prejudice, and “Return” The (Un)Settlement of Displaced Afghans in Iran and Afghanistan -- 3 Unsettling “Refugees” as a Category: Labeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut -- Part II Protesting Exclusion -- 4 Middle Eastern Refugeehood in the Happiest Place on Earth: Syrians and Iraqis Entering Finland’s Welfare State Bureaucracy -- 5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater -- 6 Demanding Their Welcome: Agency-in-Waiting at a Refugee Protest Camp in Dortmund, Germany -- Part III Making Lives in Exile -- 7 Living as Enduring: The Struggle for Life against the Limits of Refuge among Gaza Refugees in Jordan -- 8 Reimagining “the Arab Way” in Exile: Futures “Off Line” among Syrian Men in Amman -- 9 Proactive Reciprocity: Educational Trajectories Reclaimed through Patterns of Care among Refugee Men in Greece -- Part IV Seeking Health -- 10 America’s Wars and Iraqis’ Lives: Toxic Legacies, Refugee Vulnerabilities, and Regimes of Exclusion in the United States -- 11 Regimes of Exclusion in the Reproductive Healthcare Setting: Exploring the Experiences of Syrian Refugees in San Diego, California -- 12 Valuing Health, Negotiating Paradoxes: Medicalization of Hymen, Hymenoplasty, and Women’s Healthcare in Ontario -- Part V Reshaping Humanitarianism -- 13 A Death Sentence? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Making Byrrh a Brand in the Colonial Maghreb -- Branding Wine in Morocco: New Efforts to Qualify a Contested Commodity -- From City to Society: Alcohol Advertising in Lebanon -- False Fakes, Fictitious Fashion, and the Liberation of Logos: On the Islamisation of International Brands -- Dubai Gold and Diamonds: Tracing Dubai’s Influence on the South Indian State of Kerala -- The Branding of Dubai as the Capital of the Islamic Economy -- Islamic Ideals, the Concept of Love, and Processes of Individualisation: Muṣṭafā Ḥusnī’s Writings and his Spiritual Brand -- Queer Brands, Branding Queerness: Fractal Orientalism and Selling Gay-Friendly Beirut -- Part III: State Branding -- Sinan’s Iconic Practices: Staging Early Modern Ottoman Architecture and Power -- Branding the United Arab Emirates as Nation Building? …”

“…En los pemas de gran porte como el titulado "No contestan de Beirut", que se incluye en este libro, se revela la voz personal del poeta con un trágico acento testimonial…”