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Author:   Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780755655281

ISBN 10:   0755655281
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: A Man, A Martyr, and Claiming Him First Encounters The War, the Left, the Sixties, and Imad The Promise and Perils of Global Microhistory CHAPTER 1: Village, City, and American Empire in Lebanon From Snobar to Steel Town Being a Kid in Cold War Lebanon The United States and Hotel Phoenicia Come to Beirut Modernization and Dependency CHAPTER 2: Coming of Age Abroad The Family Archive First Impressions of Sixties Europe Foreigners and West Germany The Shock of ’67 Coming Home CHAPTER 3: Radical Translations, Practical Decisions Meeting the Comrades Imad Meets Leon, Parisian and Beiruti Style Translating European Anti-Zionism Back to Studies, Back to Europe Changing Beliefs in a Similar Profession CHAPTER 4: Looking and Fighting for a Home in the Lebanese Left Subject: About Imad Nuwayhed Movements, Students, and Unions in ’70s Lebanon The Rupture of ’72-3 Joining the Stronger, non-Sectarian Party The Battle of Qantari CHAPTER 5: Remembering, Forgetting, and Mobilizing a Martyr Do They Look Alike? The Funeral The Party The Comrades The Family CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Memorization in Post-war Lebanon Googling Imad in Beirut Cleaning the Slate Nostalgia for the Left The Party Strikes Back Coming to Terms

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Dylan Baun is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 (2021) which won the 2022 SERMEISS Book Award.

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