NIGHTRISE Through the Valley of Jabal ‘Amil’s Shadow MIT Libraries homeDSpace@MIT MIT View Item DSpace@MIT Home MIT Libraries MIT Theses Graduate Theses View Item DSpace@MIT Home MIT Libraries MIT Theses Graduate Theses View Item JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Toggle navigation Show simple item record NIGHTRISE Through the Valley of Jabal ‘Amil’s Shadow dc.contributor.advisorKennedy, Sheila dc.contributor.authorNahle, Mohamad dc.date.accessioned2022-01-14T15:18:22Z dc.date.available2022-01-14T15:18:22Z dc.date.issued2021-06 dc.date.submitted2021-07-27T20:22:12.306Z dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139537 dc.description.abstractThis thesis is about the night, and particularly about nightrise, which I propose here as the social and cultural construction of the nocturnal landscape. It sites itself along a twenty-six-night walk across the Lebanese hinterland that I made in August 2020, where moving shadows begin to awaken amorphous subcultures capable of weaponizing their formlessness in the name of self-preservation. Because the night resists the reign of any solitary subculture, these nocturnal cohabitations often rely on unspoken rules of civility all but invisible to strangers. And it was on the sixth night of this walk into the heart of Jabal ‘Amil – what is today known as South Lebanon – that my transgression of these rules was matched with an act of hostility that, strangely, culminated in the opportunity to imagine and implement an architecture of nightrise: a path on the southern border of Lebanon between a mountain and a river. If a path for the day seeks to impose the lone perspective of a single direction, then this path for nightrise revels in the unseen, in the ability to interrupt, and perhaps invert, the ubiquitous association between eyesight and insight. The erasure of the unidirectional line comes to propose a series of scattered stations that whisper, hint, and conjure countless variations of the same path in the minds of its visitors. These stations draw out the nocturnal qualities inspiring some of Jabal ‘Amil’s oral myths and legends, and the politics that are deeply rooted within them: from distressing celestial appearances to the imaginal world of the Jinn, and from tales that follow the spread of Shi’ism to the darkness surrounding the famous proverb, “Look under any stone in Jabal ‘Amil and you will find a poet.” Unfolding across the pages of this thesis is thus a peripatetic journey of two nocturnal voyages, one that begins in the past with the stories of my walk across Lebanon, and another in the future, on the Path of Nightrise, which will be implemented in the months following the submission of this work. dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology dc.rightsIn Copyright - Educational Use Permitted dc.rightsCopyright retained by author(s) dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ dc.titleNIGHTRISE Through the Valley of Jabal ‘Amil’s Shadow dc.typeThesis dc.description.degreeS.M. dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture mit.thesis.degreeMaster thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Architecture Studies Files in this item Name: nahle-nahle-smarchs-arch-2021- ... Size: 60.26Mb Format: PDF Description: Thesis PDF View/Open This item appears in the following Collection(s) Graduate Theses Show simple item record Show Statistical Information Search DSpace This Collection Browse All of DSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects My Account Login Statistics OA StatisticsStatistics by CountryStatistics by Department MIT Libraries home Find us on Twitter Instagram YouTube MIT Libraries navigation SearchHours & locationsBorrow & requestResearch supportAbout us PrivacyPermissionsAccessibility MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Content created by the MIT Libraries, CC BY-NC unless otherwise noted. Notify us about copyright concerns.