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

Abstract

Why did so many episodes of Lebanon’s contentious politics in the last century occur in Tripoli? 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. Details: Tine Gade Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to Lebanese ‘Revolution’ Cambridge University Press, 2023