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In a lucid synopsis of Beirut's political evolution during the middle part of the nineteenth century, Fawaz shows that it was the Egyptian and the Ottoman decision to establish Beirut as the political and administrative center of greater Syria that ensured the city's place in international and local political and economic affairs.
Jun 5, 2018 · Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large.
Jan 29, 2018 · Benefitting from foreign missionaries as well as from independent financing of a growing Christian, Muslim, and Jewish urban intellectual elite, the cosmopolitan Levantine port city—Beirut—developed as a key geographic pole of Arabic printing and publishing in the region.
- Zeina Maasri
- 2018
In the case of nineteenth-century, multi-confessional, cosmopolitan Beirut, book culture in particular experienced a temporary but sustained moment of plurality when both hand- and machine-manufactured codices enjoyed their share of market demand.
In the course of the nineteenth century, the relationship between Beirut and Mount Lebanon underwent important changes that have affected Lebanon's political life up to the present day. The city and the countryside had always been to some extent mutually dependent.
During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame.
During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevalent, letterpress-printed and lithographed works ...
