“…El ancho mundo narra las aventuras, desventuras, peripecias y secretos de los Pelletier, una familia propietaria de una fábrica de jabones en Beirut, ciudad bajo influencia francesa, con la Guerra de Indochina y el París de la posguerra y la reconstrucción como telón de fondo. …”

“…This book presents the history of town planning in Beirut between the period of independence and the start of the Lebanese civil war. …”

“…He was successively member of the service of Antiquities of Syria and Lebanon, director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan, professor at the University of Strasbourg then director of the French Institute of Archeology in Beirut. Some of his most important writings are republished here, accompanied by a presentation and a bibliography of the researcher, an inventory of the main sites on which he has worked, all illustrated with extracts from letters from his hand, photographs and plans. …”

“…The author analyses in detail Lebanon’s uncertain 2005 system transition, the so-called 'Beirut Spring', and its aftermath. In a critical perspective, she highlights fundamental communal and political dynamics that result from the collision of internal and external conflict lines on Lebanese ground, and how the former have impeded balanced power-sharing and democratisation in the small Arab Republic. …”

“…"Studies in the Middle East" is a one-year programme at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (NEST). In honour of its 20th anniversary, academics and teachers from the NEST and from Germany met at Georg-August University in Göttingen and in the nearby Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Höxter-Brenkhausen to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and possible ways to initiate a spiritual new beginning in this crisis and war-ridden region. …”

“…Man of letters and self-taught editor, polygraph with an encyclopedic culture, willingly moralist, Ğurğ Zaydān (Beirut, 1861 - Cairo, 1914) was also the bearer of a coherent educational and social project: that of guiding his readers in a changing world, by giving them both a reform of their individual and collective behaviour and a new look at their time and their history through the concept of "rebirth". …”

“…This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RAQUEL, UNA DE LAS DISCÍPULAS CLEOBA AL-BATRUNI ; NAAMAN AL-GADARINI ; TOMÁS ; UN ADELANTADO ; UNA DE LAS MARÍAS ; ROMANUS, POETA GRIEGO ; LEVÍ, DISCÍPULO ; UNA VIUDA DE GALILEA ; JUDAS, PARIENTE DE JESÚS ; UN HOMBRE DEL DESIERTO ; PEDRO ; MALAQUÍAS, ASTRÓLOGO BABILONIO ; UN FILÓSOFO ; URÍA, UN ANCIANO NAZARENO ; NICODEMO, POETA ; JOSÉ DE ARIMATEA ; GEORGIUS DE BEIRUT ; MARÍA MAGDALENA ; DE JOZAM EL NAZARENO A UN RO- MANO ; EFRAÍM DE JERICÓ ; BARCA, MERCADER DE TIRO ; FUMÍA, PITONISA DE SIÓN ; BENJAMÍN, ESCRIBA ; ZACARÍAS ; JONATHÁN ; JUANA DE BETSAIDA ; MANASS, UN ABOGADO DE JERUSALÉN…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Agency and (Street) Art Politics in Beirut: On Temporary Art Platform's Guide for Urban Intervention -- Part 4: Enclosures, Apertures, and the Performative -- 8. …”

“…Bibliotheca Islamica (BI) is the Orient-Institut Beirut's platform for the critical edition of mainly Arabic texts. …”

“…Over the past decades, successive major accidents have caused deaths, injuries, significant environmental pollution and massive economic losses - from the hydrogen fluoride leak in Gumi (Korea) in 2012, the ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas (United States) in 2013 or, recently, the blow-up of a chemical facility in Tarragona (Spain) and the explosion at the port of Beirut (Lebanon) in 2020, and the blast in Leverkusen (Germany) in 2021. …”

“…En medio de estas convulsiones sísmicas, Beirut salta por los aires, los refugiados llegan por oleadas a Europa, también militantes integristas de forma clandestina, y el presidente turco, Erdogan, intenta convertir Estambul en el nuevo centro del Islam mundial. …”