While in her reading of Khoury's work, Judith Naeff critiques B018 as a problematic space for the consumption of violence and human suffering, she also stops shy of acknowledging how the night club excludes an entire low-income demographic that could use a potential public monument as a site for collective mourning. See Judith Naeff, Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut: A City's Suspended Now (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 218.