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Book signing by Hashim Sarkis.
Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of onstantinos Doxiadis by Hashim Sarkis has just been released by Dar An-Nahar publishers in Beirut, Lebanon. The book documents the comprehensive photographic survey of the country conducted by the world-renowned Greek planner, Constantinos Doxiadis, between 1957 and 1958. The book also describes in detail the national housing plan that he proposed for the country. In the process, the book debates the idea of national planning, the relationship between planning and politics at this critical moment of both the discipline of planning and the political climate of the Middle East. It sheds light on the state of Lebanon during the civil uprising of 1958 at a critical point
in its development and modernization. The book is a large format publication with photographs, plans, and text in both English and French.
The book includes an English introduction by Roger Owen, Professor of History at Harvard University, and in Arabic by Ghassan Tueni.
Hashim Sarkis is the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also a practicing architect in Boston and in Lebanon.
For further information, please look up www.darannahar.com or contact order@darannahar.com
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