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A compelling work of careful analysis and creative connections that proposes a historically informed set of powerful readings about the transformations of Beirut's public(s) and spaces. Hatim El-Hibri deconstructs masterfully outmoded assumptions about Lebanon's political economy and societies, unravelling instead the everyday visual infrastructures that sustain and reproduce forces such as sectarianism or financialization. The outcome is an important contribution that implores us to think critically about how image, its mediation, and infrastructures are remaking cities in today's world. -- Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri weaves a narrative that articulates concealment and infrastructure onto a conceptual terrain that transcends the empirical context of Lebanon. This engaging, groundbreaking, and indispensable book makes a truly meaningful and influential intervention in global media studies, Middle East studies, and urban studies. -- Marwan M. Kraidy, author of * The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World *

Hatim El-Hibri weaves a narrative that articulates concealment and infrastructure onto a conceptual terrain that transcends the empirical context of Lebanon. This engaging, groundbreaking, and indispensable book makes a truly meaningful and influential intervention in global media studies, Middle East studies, and urban studies. -- Marwan M. Kraidy, author of * The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World *

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Hatim El-Hibri is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University.

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