Book Review: Tine Gade, Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'

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https://journals.uio.no/babylon/issue/view/925

Why did so many episodes of Lebanon’s contentious politics in the last century occur inTripoli? In her work, Sunni City, Tine Gade traces the hundred-year trajectory (1920-2020) of the ‘Sunni crisis’ in Lebanese politics to explain how identity plays into urban protests and violence in Tripoli.

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Tine Gade

Sunni City. Tripoli from IslamistUtopia to Lebanese ‘Revolution’

Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Robert Forster

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robert.forster@cmi.no

Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East (URBAN3DP)

Feb 2019 - Mar 2024

Book Review: Tine Gade, Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'

Robert Forster

Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East (URBAN3DP)

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