Authors:Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Amelia Thomas,
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: lonely, syria, lebanon, planet, guide, travel, multi, amp, country
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1741046092
ISBN-13: 9781741046090

Discover Syria & LebanonSmile your thanks when the elderly caretaker of a Damascus house opens the door just for youTest-drive your Arabic as you fly through the Syrian desert in a 1960s Dodge taxiWhat conflict? Find your peace hiking amid waterfalls, hermitages and monasteries in Lebanon’s gorgeous Qadisha ValleyLather up with olive oil soap from Aleppo’s famous souq - and learn how to pick one fit for a queenIn This Guide:Three authors, 140 days of on-the-road research, one international conflict, countless invitations to teaAsk the archaeologist: all your questions on Syria&

Author: Ronnie Miller
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: intifada, lebanon
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1990-12-12
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 081917985X
ISBN-13: 9780819179852

This text seeks to examine the relationship over time between Canada and Israel, and by doing so, to highlight the relationship of Canada’s Jewish community with Israel, and Canada’s Jewish community with the Canadian government. The author explores in detail the activities of the Jewish Foreign Policy Lobby in Canada and its impact on the formulation of Canadian Middle East policy. Includes a detailed examination of Canadian policymakers’ positions in key situations, such as Prime Minister Trudeau’s speeches, Foreign Minister MacGuigan’s speeches, and the like, w

Author: Sandra Mackey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: divided, house, lebanon
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-07-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393328430
ISBN-13: 9780393328431

With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanon’s past, present, and future. With the West’s economic and security interests increasingly at stake in the Middle East, it is impossible to ignore Lebanon—a nation in all ways divided and tormented by the interplay between the West and the Arab world. Sandra Mackey delineates the multifarious culture that is Lebanon; carefully stripping away the complex stigmas of Lebanese politics, she brings each component into focus, priming readers on the conflicts between Sunni and Shia, Maronites and Druze, Christian and Muslim, Isra

Author: Robert Fisk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: war, lebanon, nation, pity
Number of Pages: 727
Published: 2001-10
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0192801309
ISBN-13: 9780192801302

Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain’s foremost journalists, this remarkable book combines political analysis and war reporting in an unprecedented way: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade. Fisk’s book recounts the details of a terrible war but it also tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of Western blindness that had led inevitably to political and mili

Author: Eyal Zisser
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: independence, challenge, lebanon
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-05-12
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1860645372
ISBN-13: 9781860645372

The first decade of independence (1943-1952) was crucial to the political history of Lebanon, following the creation of the state in 1920 and the subsequent years of French tutelage. This period is defined by the presidency of Bishara al-Khuri, the first elected president, a founding father who played a vital part in forming the distinctive character of the Lebanese state and in Lebanon’s later history, both rich and successful and troubled and tragic.

Author: Naomi Joy Weinberger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lebanon, intervention, syrian
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1986-11-20
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0195040104
ISBN-13: 9780195040104

Conflict and intervention in the Middle East are not uncommon occurrences. Yet when civil strife erupted in Lebanon in 1975, the events that followed were unusual indeed. Unlike most patterns of intervention, Syria displayed remarkable tactical flexibility by first intervening on behalf of the rebels, its traditional allies, then shifting its allegiance mid-war to the Lebanese incumbents. Also, whereas most intervention scenarios end with a process of decommitment, Syria eventually occupied parts of Lebanon to become an enduring military entity there. Delving into primary Syrian and Lebanese

Author: Fawwaz Traboulsi
Publisher: Pluto Press
Keywords: lebanon, modern, history
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-01-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0745324371
ISBN-13: 9780745324371

-- A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries --"Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Leban