Beirut Radical

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A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War

Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

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English

I.B. Tauris
19 February 2026

Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Military history; Marxism & Communism; Political activism

Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid was born in 1944 in the Lebanese village of Ras al-Matn. He came of age in the 1960s, splitting time between Beirut and Europe. And he died in 1975, the start of the Lebanese Civil War.

But who was Imad Nuwayhid? Was he a leftist intellectual? A self-interested hotel worker? A fighter dedicated to Palestinian liberation? A tragic symbol of what happened to those caught in the crosshairs during the war? Through archival and oral history, Beirut Radical finds that Imad was none of these things alone, but all of them together.

Beirut Radical takes up Imad Nuwayhid as a global microhistory—a window into the global sixties, the war, and its aftermath. Baun argues that Imad’s beliefs and actions, crystalized during two tumultuous decades of the Cold War, signal a young generation of what he terms “practical radicals.” While much more is known about their politics and support for left-wing ideologies, Imad’s life highlights how they pursued them, equally, alongside their career aspirations. Imad’s death in the war, then, shows the twisting path by which some young leftists ceded their autonomy to liberation struggles. Lastly, Beirut Radical follows Imad’s afterlife, examining how multiple actors to Lebanon’s war, some in concert (party and family members), some in resistance (some family), claim individuals and their memory, during and beyond wartime. More than anything perhaps, Beirut Radical is a meditation on the intimate, the personal, the ethics, and the micro-level of history.

By: Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780755655281
ISBN 10: 0755655281
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dylan Baun is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 (2021) which won the 2022 SERMEISS Book Award.