On Valentine’s Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security Council responded by declaring the assassination an international terrorist act with severe regional and international ramifications. An International […]
This is the first English translation of the statements of the leader of Lebanon’s “Party of God”, in a comprehensive edition. In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding Secretary General of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the Western media. Yet, well […]
Fakhr ad-Din Ma’n was a small man with outsize ambitions, and Renaissance Emir tells his story, a unique account of cultural discovery with a tragic end. A Druze prince who fled his mountain to seek refuge in Florence at the end of the Renaissance, he took along a diverse party of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish […]
Lebanon: The Fractured Country explains why the fate of one small nation is now of international importance. David Gilmour traces the causes of the current conflict back to their origins, and draws on his own first-hand experience of life and war in Lebanon to give a clear and compelling account of the fractured country’s scarred […]
This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions, their joys, their wars and their sorrows. The passages have been selected and presented by Ted Gorton and Andree Feghali Gorton. Ted first came to […]