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Lebanese Books On peace, war and crisis
by Robert Fisk This book, first published in 1990, describes aspects of Lebanon's fifteen year war, including the violence, sundry political factions, 1982 invasion by Israel, efforts of the multinational peace-keeping force and the taking of Western hostages. Click here for: Pity the Nation
by Sanford Holst, foreword by Antoine Khoury Harb This is the most complete exploration of Phoenician and early Lebanese society ever seen. It is amazing how much of that ancient society has found its way into our life today, though overlaid by recent violence. In these pages this ancient land comes alive again. Deeply researched in Lebanon and across the Mediterranean with the help of many knowledgable people, it is told in a memorable manner which adds to this remarkable experience. Click here for: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage
by Thomas L Friedman This book was first published in 1989 and "is very distinctly a story about the Middle East in the 1980s. It offers but the merest foreshadowing of current developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict. That being said, Friedman's work still offers a relatively good account of the roots of the conflict (explaining, for instance, how Palestinians who actually seemed on their way to assimilating into Israeli society instead dramatically rejected it with the 1987 intifada)." Click here for: From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh This is "a thorough examination of the history...of the Islamist group known as Hizbullah, or the Party of God. Consisting of mainly Lebanese Shiite Muslims, Hizbullah is well known for using both militant and moderate tactics to pursue its goals. Indeed its changing back and forth between extremes has puzzled those who would study it or those who are forced to confront it." Click here for: In the Path of Hizbullah
by Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman This is a portrait of how a Hezbollah cell in Charlotte, N.C., was broken up a little more than a year before September 11. In clear prose with a minimum of political ax-grinding, the authors provide biographies of cell leader Mohammed Youssef Hammoud (from his origins in the Shiite slums of Beirut) and member Said Harb; the FBI agents and federal prosecutors; and many incidental players along the way.. Click here for: Lightning out of Lebanon
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For
Lebanon
Pity
the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
Phoenicians:
Lebanon's Epic Heritage
From
Beirut to Jerusalem
In
the Path of Hizbullah
Lightning
Out of Lebanon