Cosmopolitan Radicalism

Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon''s history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the ''golden years'', Beirut''s long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal ju...