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Author: Kais Firro Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004094376 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 428
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This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.
Author: Kais Firro Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004094376 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.
Author: Samir Kassir Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520271262 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 654
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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 Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
Author: Andrew Beattie Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 9781858287188 Category : Syria Languages : en Pages : 382
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The Rough Guide to Syria is the essential guide to this compact but culturally rich Middle Eastern country. Features include: Thorough accounts of all the monuments, from the ancient remains at Palmyra and Ugarit to stately mosques and hilltop crusader castles. Practical advice on shopping in the souks of Damascus and Aleppo and exploring the desert plains. Informed guidance on how to travel independently, and where to eat and sleep, in every price range. Detailed background on the country's history, culture, architecture and politics.
Author: Meedo Taha Publisher: Interlink Books ISBN: 9781623719920 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A CINEMATIC DEBUT OF A PROMISING YOUNG NOVELIST FROM LEBANON--A FAUX-THRILLER ABOUT A RECLUSIVE BOTANIST WHO WITNESSES A POLITICAL MURDER AND IS DRAWN INTO A PERSONAL INVESTIGATION--A captivating thriller that reveals a family’s intergenerational secrets, a nation’s deepest fears, and an underground world of politics, religion, and society. Beirut at dawn. A bus leaves the Charles Helou station en route to Damascus. Seven passengers are on board, one of whom is a prominent Lebanese politician. Before crossing the border, the bus is accosted and derailed. All seven passengers are gunned down. A botanist studying a rare occurrence of acacias nearby witnesses the horror. While the nation around him plunges into conspiracy theories and chaos, the botanist realizes he holds the only clue to the mystery: his injured Acacia. This sends him on a quest for answers, through a minefield of national fears and family secrets, deep into a private underworld.
Author: Karl Reinhold Haellquist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136100741 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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First Published in 2004. These essays deal with the Western penetration of Asia from the earliest times to the recent past in the quest for trade, and by means of opening up routes and communications to bridge East and West, thereby influencing societies, economies and cultures. The relevant sections cover West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Author: Helena Cobban Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000303179 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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This book provides a vivid and readable account of Lebanon's development since its first emergence in 1585, unravelling the intricacies of the sectarian/religious groups and the special kinds of communities which have sunk 900-year-old roots in the remote fastnesses of the Mount Lebanon interior.
Author: Nikolaos Van Dam Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857720538 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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In the midst of turmoil in the Middle East, and in the face of protests and demonstrations from Homs to Damascus and other places all over Syria, the Ba'th Party and Bashar al-Asad are truly caught up in a struggle to hold onto power in Syria. In this important book, Nikolaos van Dam explores and explains how the Asad dynasty has come to rule Syria for about half a century and keep the complex patchwork of minorities, factions and opponents securely under control for such an unprecedented long period. Through an in-depth examination of the role of sectarian, regional and tribal loyalties, van Dam traces developments within the Ba'th party and the military and civilian power elite from the 1963 Ba'thist takeover up to the present day.
Author: William W. Harris Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190217839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 387
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The book explores the affairs of Mount Lebanon and its surrounds through fourteen centuries, beginning with the emergence of its Christian, Muslim and Islamic-derived communities between the sixth and eleventh centuries. Against this backdrop, it interprets the modern republic of Lebanon from Ottoman antecedents to present day crises.
Author: Kais Firro
Author: Kais Firro
Author: Samir Kassir
Author: Andrew Beattie
Author: Meedo Taha
Author: Karl Reinhold Haellquist
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Author: Helena Cobban
Author: Nikolaos Van Dam
Author: United States Department of Commerce,Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Author: William W. Harris