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“Beirut Governorate” as a book category groups works focused on Lebanon’s capital city—the administrative governorate that largely overlaps with Beirut proper—highlighting its people, places, and pivotal moments. It includes histories from Phoenician Berytus and the famed Roman law school through Ottoman and French Mandate eras, the Lebanese Civil War, postwar reconstruction, the 2005 protests, the 2019 uprising, and the 2020 port explosion; neighborhood portraits (e.g., Ras Beirut, Hamra, Achrafieh, Gemmayzeh, the port district); and studies of politics, sectarian power-sharing, economy, migration, and refugees. The category also spans memoirs and fiction where Beirut is a central setting, travel and cultural guides, photo and architecture books, and analyses of literature, music, cuisine, nightlife, and urban life—ideal for readers seeking Beirut-specific perspectives rather than Lebanon in general.

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