Scarecrow Press, 1998. — 269 p. The Lebanese civil war has made the study of Lebanon a difficult endeavor. The complexity of Lebanese society is the result of a unique political system and a richly diverse populace. This volume will help those who wish to delve beyond the superficial journalistic accounts of Lebanese society and culture. Entries encompass information about various...
London: Hurst & Company, 2020. — 527 p. Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow after blow, from Rafiq Hariri's assassination in 2005, to the 2006 July War, to the current Syrian conflict, which has brought a million refugees streaming into the country. This is an account not just of Lebanon's high politics, with its endless...
I.B. Tauris, 2002. — 272 p. The 1950s in Lebanon were marked by bitter infighting, slander, rivalry and rumor. Much was left unsaid, much was misunderstood, much was lied about. Caroline Attié's book seeks to explain the truth behind the intrigues and cloak-and-dagger politics that dominated the country for the decade. Many questions have gone unanswered until now. Attie's...
Washington: Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1984. — 158 p. The invasion and its aftermath. The first phase (June 1982-September 1982). The second phase (October 1982-May 1983). The third phase (June 1983-February 1984). Lessons and consequences. Postscript: Isareli efforts to rewrite history.
State University of New York Press, 2009. — 272 p. Oren Barak sheds new light on the major political and social developments in Lebanon since its independence by focusing on the emergence of the Lebanese Army, its paralysis during the civil war from 1975 to 1990, and its reconstruction after the war. He discusses the remarkable transformation of a military dominated by one...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 208 p. The question of belonging has formed the basis of the political, religious and cultural tensions in Lebanon, to the point that sectarian conflict on the country's future contributed significantly to the outbreak of civil war in 1975. This book focuses on the development of the Phoenician-Lebanese movement that struggled against the hegemonic status...
New York: Stein and Day, 1984. — 261 p. From access to sources inside Israel, Washington, and powers hostile to Israel, this is a uniquely knowledgeable and dramatic account of the causes and conduct of the war and its aftermath. Fire in Beirut describes how and why Israel moved into Lebanon in 1982 after years of clashes between local and foreign forces had destroyed what was...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 241 p. Lebanon is a country whose domestic politics have, even more than others in the region, been at the mercy of changes on the international stage. Having been under Ottoman and French rule in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the post-World War II era has seen Lebanon subjected to Israeli, Syrian and American interventions which have all...
I. B. Tauris, 2006. — 256 p. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, known as "Mr. Lebanon," was killed by a massive explosion as he drove along the Beirut seafront on Valentine's Day in 2005. A business entrepreneur, who rose from nothing to become one of the most powerful men in Lebanese politics, Hariri's assassination has incited outrage and suspicion. Nicholas Blanford...
Ithaca Press, 1999. — 344 p. Warlords and Merchants examines the history of the Lebanese warlord/business establishment and illuminates local attitudes, which have often seemed baffling to the outside world. The book provides a close-up study of Lebanese leaders and the business class. It provides a seminal illustration of and insight into the resistance of local cultures and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 224 p. This book analyses the reasons for women’s participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Whilst most existing accounts of the Civil War in Lebanon either overlook the roles and experiences of women entirely or focus on women as victims or peacemakers only, ‘Women and the Lebanese...
Routledge, 2013. — 259 p. Despite the bitter conflict that divided Jerusalem and Damascus, a fascinating process of indirect – through the United States – and tacit understandings emerged with regard to Lebanon in the 1970s. This derived largely from the Israeli deterrence posture which held in check Syrian military involvement in Lebanon. This book, first published in 1987,...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 325 p. Why has secularism faced such challenges in the Middle East and in Lebanon in particular? In light of dominating headlines about the spread of sectarianism and the so-called death of Arab secularism, Mark Farha addresses the need for a thorough examination of the history of secular thought and practice in the region. By offering a...
Routledge, 2016 — 236 pp. — ISBN 9781138477841 The Arab uprisings have put Lebanon under increased strain. While the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt caused limited reverberations, the war in Syria echoed in the fine-tuned political and confessional balance of Lebanon. Over one million refugees, equal to one-quarter of Lebanon's population, have moved in from Syria. The...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 256 p. War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the Lebanese Civil War through a micro-level exploration of how the urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict. Focusing on the initial phase of the war in 1975 and 1976, the volume also draws significant parallels with more recent occurrences of internecine conflict and with...
With a New Preface. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. — 470 p. — (History and Society of the Modern Middle East). — ISBN: 0-231-14011-8. Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously...
M. Robertson, 1983. — 232 p. Explains the causes of the Civil War in Lebanon, describes the ideologies of the major factions, and examines the results of foreign intervention.
Westview Press, 1983. — 200 p. Torn by civil war, its major city in shambles, and occupied by foreign peacekeeping forces as well as foreign armies, the Republic of Lebanon in the 1980s was struggling to regroup, rebuild and resolve its problems under new leadership. In this analytical survey, first published in 1983, Professor Gordon addresses such questions as why the...
Clarendon Press, 2005. — 322 p. List of Illustrations and Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables. Note on Transliteration. Note on Currencies. Capitalizations. The Struggle for Self-determination. A Nation of Provincials. Capitalist Urbanization and Subaltern Resistance. Mediations. War, Health, and the Making of Municipal Beirut. The Intermediary Bourgeoisie and Municipal...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 387 p. — (Studies in Middle Eastern History). In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 260 p. From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon endured one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars of the twentieth century. Sune Haugbolle’s timely and often poignant book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of that war. While the Lebanese state encouraged forgetfulness and political parties created sectarian...
Springer Nature, 2019. — 206 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-25704-0 This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony. It sheds light on the movement’s activism, changes and sectarianism throughout the stages of movement emergence,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 280 p. From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. — 627 p. Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. — 368 p. — (History and Society of the Modern Middle East). — ISBN: 0–231–12476–7. In this long-awaited work, Samir Khalaf analyzes the history of civil strife and political violence in Lebanon and reveals the inherent contradictions that have plagued that country and made it so vulnerable to both inter-Arab and superpower rivalries....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 320 p. Covering Lebanon's history through the Civil War of 1975―89, Sandra Mackey lays the groundwork needed to comprehend this often ill-understood country―offering insight into its role as the gateway between West and East, and bringing a clarity of focus to the schisms that serve to divide and define Lebanon.
University of California Press, 2000. — 278 p. List of Maps Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration religion as the site of the colonial encounter the gentle crusade knowledge and ignorance the faces of reform reinventing mount lebanon the return of the juhhal the devil’s work “a very old thing” Epilogue Notes
BRIC, 2009. — 347 p. — ISBN: 978-82-7453-073-7. Global moments are breakthrough events that change people’s lives and their futures. They are developments that typically call for significant adaptation leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict. Few places on earth can rival the Levant (Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) when it comes to both incubating global...
Pluto Press, 2018. — 234 p. What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the rise of Islamic activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing transnational parallels with other revolutionary religious struggles in Latin America and South Africa, Sarah Marusek offers a timely analysis of the social and political evolution of Islamic movements. The...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 434 p. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon, Second Edition covers the long history of Lebanon, from before the Ottoman era through the Ottoman Era, the French Mandate, Independence, the long civil war and the recent protests for democratic reform and the aftermath of the explosion in the port area. It features lengthy...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 175 p. This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian...
London: Frank Cass, 2003. — 189 p. This work is a combination of an account of a most captivating Lebanese personality with a penetrating analysis of the historical and religious contours of Lebanon. Mordechai Nisan spent much time with Etienne Sakr between 2000 and 2001. Set within the context of the national political narrative of Lebanon, this volume offers a portrait of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 257 p. The sixteen-year long civil war in Lebanon was caused by dissatisfaction over the distribution of political power. The system favoured Christians who fought to eject Palestinian armed forces, which sought to use the country as a spring board for attacks into adjacent Israel. Western intervention was repelled by suicide-bombing attacks....
Cornell University Press, 2023. — 270 p. Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, Sarah E. Parkinson...
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987. — 431 p. Describes the origin and development of the current civil war in Lebanon, including the role of the United States, Israel and other foreign powers, from the perspective of a journalist with many years experience in the region. From empire to colony: Mount Lebanon and Grand Liban The early years: independence and the national pact...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1983. — 304 p. The Tragedy of Lebanon is a reissue of Jonathan Randal's acclaimed 1983 study of the rightwing Christian militias in Lebanon that in 1975 plunged the country into a decades-long cycle of war and civil conflict. For this 2012 reissue of the book, Randal added a piercing new Preface reflecting on the meaning of those events, both then and...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978 178453 554 4 Whether defined as essentially 'Turkish', and therefore alien to the Lebanese experience, or remembered in its final years as a tyrannical and brutal dictatorship, the period has not been thought of fondly in most Lebanese historiography. In a far-reaching and much-needed analysis of this complex legacy, James A. Reilly looks...
Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. — 136 p. Find out about the 1958 U.S. intervention that succeeded and apply those lessons to today's conflicts in the Middle East In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by vendors and sunbathers. Fortunately, the rest of their mission—helping to end Lebanon's first civil...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 288 p. Northern Lebanon is a land in turmoil. Long under the sway of the Assad regime in Syria, it is now a magnet for Sunni Muslim jihadists inspired by anti-Western and anti-Shi'a worldviews. The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East describes in harrowing detail the struggle led by an active minority of jihadist militants, some claiming...
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 244 p. — (Middle East in Focus). No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. This book explains the issues, events, and personalities involved in one of the globe's most dramatic and important stories. Reflections on Lebanon; W.Harris What...
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002. — 254 p. Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? In the light of modern scholarship, a famous Lebanese writer and scholar examines the historical myths on which his country's...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. — 312 p. — (History and Society of the Modern Middle East). — ISBN: 978-0-231-14426-1. By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not...
US Army Command and General Staff College, 1981. — 65 p. — (Leavenworth Papers № 3). This paper examines the US. military intervention in the 1958 Lebanese political crisis. By focusing on a relatively recent Army experience in planning and conducting a major contingency operation, the study illuminates the complexity of military planning and the incongruity between plans and...
Routledge, 2008. — 241 p. Based on an award-winning thesis, Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon is a pioneering study of musical theater and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century. In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil violence of 1958, the Rahbani Brothers...
Pluto Press, 2007. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7453-2438-8. An updated history of modern Lebanon is long overdue as the last such attempt dates from the mid-1960s. Much has happened since and a lot of new historical material has been uncovered and researched. The last civil war (1975–90) was the occasion for a wealth of intellectual production on Lebanon in a variety of fields. Some...
London: Routledge, 1996. — 345 p. Winslow provides a comprehensive history and political analysis of Lebanon from ancient times to the present day. He focuses on the civil and sectarian strife that has characterized the country's past and contemporary history. Peoples and history to 1840 Wars and independence: 1840-1914 Greater Lebanon: 1915-1943 The independent republic:...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 342 с. Книга представляет собой публикацию писем украинского востоковеда и писателя А. Е. Крымского, знакомящих с бытом, укладом и состоянием общественной мысли Ливана конца XIX в. От составителей. Предисловие. И. М. Смилянская. Письма.
М.: Наука, 1975. — 342 с. Книга представляет собой публикацию писем украинского востоковеда и писателя А. Е. Крымского, знакомящих с бытом, укладом и состоянием общественной мысли Ливана конца XIX в. От составителей. Предисловие. И. М. Смилянская. Письма.
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2011. — 276 с. (История стран Востока. XX век) Ливан в конце XIX-начале XX в. Период мандатного управление Франции Ливан в годы Второй мировой войны Первые годы независимости Кризис 1958 г. и его последствия Ливан и палестинский вопрос Гражданская война 1975-1991 гг. Жизнь после войны Ливан и арабская политическая весна Заключение Примечание
Москва : Географгиз, 1959. — 53 с. В конце 1957 г. автор брошюры вместе с археологом профессором Е. И. Крупновым совершил поездку в Ливан. В книге автор делится своими личными впечатлениями, которые получил, совершая многочисленные поездки по городам, историческим местам страны, встречаясь с людьми различных занятий и профессий. Кроме того, он сообщает краткие общие сведения об...
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський, 2014. — 62 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії ліванської цивілізації. Проаналізовані період з найдавніших часів та до сьогоднішнього дня. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню становлення громадянського суспільства і розвитку культури, військової справи. Описано події громадського і культурного життя народів...
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