Essays on Beirut

The film depicts the fear and terrors that children in Beirut faced during the 1975 uprising that divided Christians and Muslims. The film is based on the boyhood memories of the director and writer. While the film presents an adequate progression and a series of characters and events that portray the fearful state of the children at that time. However, the narrative, to some extent, departs from the confines and structure of the classic narrative. Classic narrative requires a depiction of the emotional life of the main character which is lacking in the film. The director's focus is on ...

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According to a PBS report in 2011, commenting on Middle East rooted terrorist group attacks, “While these extremely violent religious extremists represent a minority view, their threat is real” (Moore, “Evolution of Islamic Terrorism”). Today, of course, the most commonly popularized terrorist group gaining worldwide headlines in the news are the jihadists known as ISIS. Ever since ISIS has gained center stage internationally, there is hardly a human being who is not aware of the group’s presence on Earth. Currently it has been written that the contemporary world in the Middle East has been socio-politically changed, and the ...

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The digital revolution that reached its peak in the second part of the 20th century pervades its influence on every facet of the global society. One of the effects of a society impacted by this evolution is the faster access to data and the availability of the global community to that information. Nonetheless, there is another instance that is changing the operation of contemporary society-extremism. Examining all of its contemporary features, extremism is posing a two-pronged threat; one, it impacts the global community and two, terrorism impacts the changes that society will undergo. It is only after ...

According to Khalaf and Khalaf, the veil concept has its origins in Egypt where it represented a movement that was based and grounded in the Islamic faith and religious tradition. It embodied a moral and behavioral code of conduct or dressing that sought to distinguish the pure Islamists from the secularists. It must have also come to Beirut from Turkey and Iran where similar dressing codes of the hijab were strictly observed and sometimes legislated by the state, particularly in education. The Ottoman laws on clothing for example emphasized on head coverings to show rank and honor in the ...