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In her writings on both 1960s post-colonial Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Zeina Maasri has produced numerous fascinating books exploring the development of posters and graphic design in Lebanon. Her book, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties, uncovers the transnational circuits that animated Arab modernist pursuits and sheds light on the forgotten trajectories and graphic design practices of its protagonists: Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian artists who wove through Beirut, in and out of its flourishing art galleries, publishing industry and political movements. She conceives of Beirut’s long 1960s “as a liminal juncture, an anxious time and space when the city held out promises at once politically radical and radically cosmopolitan.”
Source:
https://www.explodingappendix.com/2022/10/25/podcast-38-arab-art-and-posters-in-1960s-post-colonial-beirut-and-lebanons-civil-war-1975-1990-with-zeina-maasri/