Lebanon's Lost Communist Future

What Maher Abi Samra's "We Were Communists" (2011) says about the present

This is a long one folks, but I hope you'll enjoy it. There is a lot more that I wish to write: consider that the following is an expansion of one section of my PhD, so roughly 6 pages out of around 440. Each section raises interesting questions (if I may say so myself) that I would like to explore. There aren't many people out there who take something so niche - Lebanese cinema - and explores its global implications, so I hope you appreciate how difficult it is to fight the urge to archive that entire dissertation. Pitching it to various sites is difficult because it's rarely seen as worthy enough. If it is, it is more often than not unpaid. If you wish to publish or translate this or similar content, feel free to reach out.

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Anyway, I look forward to reading/hearing your thoughts.