Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis
Publish Date:June 23, 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0230605879
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No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. Continually for fifty years, it has been crisis after crisis, often drawing in direct U.S. and international involvement. Most recently, Lebanon has been the scene of civil war, wars with Israel, a popular mass movement that expelled Syrian occupation, terror, hostage-taking, assassination, and the struggle between allies of Iran and the West. This book explains the issues, events, and personalities involved in one of the globe's most dramatic and important stories.
Reflections on Lebanon--William Harris * What Makes Lebanon a Distinctive Country--Eli Fawuz * Lebanon's Militia Wars--Tony Badran * Lebanon's Roller Coaster Ride--William Harris * Demographic Dilemmas--Mark Farha * Lebanon's Culture: Popular Music as a Case Study--Charles Paul Freund * Lebanon’s Economy between Violence and Political Stalemate--Nimrod Raphaeli * Islamist Groups in Lebanon--Gary Gambill * Hizballah in Lebanon: Between Teheran and Beirut, between the Struggle with Israel, and the Struggle for Lebanon--Eyal Zisser * The Lebanese Shi'a as a Political Community--Omri Nir * Israel and Lebanon: Problematic Proximity--Jonathan Spyer * America and the Lebanon Issue--David Schenker *
"A rare panoptical book on Lebanon, illustrating the country's complexity and exhilarating intangibles."--Michael Young, Opinion Editor, The Daily Star, Lebanon.