Parution : Dylan Baun, Beirut Radical. A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War, I.B. Tauris, 2025

Beirut RadicalA Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War Dylan Baun Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid was born in 1944 in the Lebanese village of Ras al-Matn. He came of age in the 1960s, splitting time between Beirut and Europe. And he died in 1975, the start of the Lebanese Civil War. But who was Imad Nuwayhid? Was he a leftist intellectual? A self-interested hotel worker? A fighter dedicated to Palestinian liberation? A tragic symbol of what happened to those caught in t...