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Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis
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.
- GenresLebanon
255 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Barry Rubin
88 books21 followersBarry Rubin is an American-born Israeli expert on terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also editor of the journal 'Turkish Studies'.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also editor of the journal 'Turkish Studies'.
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April 4, 2012
Overall, the book serves as a useful teaching tool for my Conflicts in the Middle East class. I've had students read different chapters over the course of the last few semesters and some of them have been really useful for helping students understand Lebanon since the Civil War. I also found 2 or 3 of them to be really good for supplementing my own lecture materials.
March 8, 2012
To be honest, I only read this book because it was sent to me for free after the publisher used a photo I took in Beirut for the cover art.
As any collection of political sciency essays is bound to be, the book was uneven. Some of the essays were deadly dull and other I got a lot out of. I found I liked the parts that discussed Lebanon in the 19th and early 20th centuries when it talked about the country's current problems, because that post-ancient world/pre-1975 history is a pretty serious gap in my knowledge of the country.
The other problem with the book was that for a book about an Arab country the list of authors was packed with a lot of Israeli and American scholars and relatively few Arabs. Not that an outsider perspective can't bring insights. But the small number of Lebanese voices in a book about Lebanon is a pretty striking flaw with the collection.
As any collection of political sciency essays is bound to be, the book was uneven. Some of the essays were deadly dull and other I got a lot out of. I found I liked the parts that discussed Lebanon in the 19th and early 20th centuries when it talked about the country's current problems, because that post-ancient world/pre-1975 history is a pretty serious gap in my knowledge of the country.
The other problem with the book was that for a book about an Arab country the list of authors was packed with a lot of Israeli and American scholars and relatively few Arabs. Not that an outsider perspective can't bring insights. But the small number of Lebanese voices in a book about Lebanon is a pretty striking flaw with the collection.
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