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Author: Kais Firro
Publisher: BRILL
Published:
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9789004094376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 0520271262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeirut 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
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781858287188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2020-07-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781623719920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Helena Cobban
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1000303179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2011-05-30
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0857720538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: United States Department of Commerce,Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 908
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William W. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0190217839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9004153888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
