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Author: Nadine A. Sinno
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9781477328743
ISBN 10: 1477328742
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 April 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[This] is a very well-written and beautifully presented book [that] will be of great interest and use to scholars and policymakers seeking to deepen their understanding of the power of street art as resistance and as an alternative to sectarian politics in Lebanon and more broadly the significance in social movement activism and culture.-- ""Politics, Religion & Ideology"" (5/21/2025 12:00:00 AM) Sinno is excellent in her thorough analysis of graffiti and street art...[and] shows a remarkable depth of knowledge of Lebanese culture and society...The book is an important study...[that] makes it possible for the uninitiated to understand the make-up of the streets of Beirut.-- ""KULT"" (11/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)
Through an innovative interdisciplinary approach integrating urban studies, affect studies, and linguistics, Sinno presents graffiti as a form of place-making...[This book is] essential reading for those interested in the myriad alternative forms of resistance and political action that emerge amid widespread destruction and collapse...[and] provides vital insight into the ways that ordinary people, through their aesthetic, improvised, and creative acts, claim and consolidate their place in the arena of politics, which is otherwise subsumed by the elite political class.-- ""American Ethnologist"" (5/31/2025 12:00:00 AM) [This] is a very well-written and beautifully presented book [that] will be of great interest and use to scholars and policymakers seeking to deepen their understanding of the power of street art as resistance and as an alternative to sectarian politics in Lebanon and more broadly the significance in social movement activism and culture.-- ""Politics, Religion & Ideology"" (5/21/2025 12:00:00 AM) Sinno is excellent in her thorough analysis of graffiti and street art...[and] shows a remarkable depth of knowledge of Lebanese culture and society...The book is an important study...[that] makes it possible for the uninitiated to understand the make-up of the streets of Beirut.-- ""KULT"" (11/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)
Author Information
Nadine A. Sinno is an associate professor of Arabic and director of the Arabic Program at Virginia Tech, as well as a literary translator. She is the coauthor of Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa.
