The Fate of Lebanon; A Sociologist Examines the Lebanese Crisis
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2008
الناشر: دار نلسن
نبذة المؤلف:In the first edition published in 1990, this book appeared under the title “What is wrong with Lebanon?”.
Given the constantly fluctuating political situation in Lebanon and throughout the region, it would seem that any book that attempts to assess the state to Lebanese politics would become almost immediately obsolete. Yet, ...because this book seeks to describe and interpret not just a set of historical events, but rather the psychological and cultural causes and responses to them, and given the stubborn intransigence of so many Lebanese political issues, “The Fate of Lebanon” remains deeply challenging, impressively resilient, and markedly current.
It goes without saying that the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East has changed significantly over the past two decades, and given that the political dynamic in Lebanon is fluid, this book might be best understood as a snapshot of a particular historical moment that represents the anxieties of that time and also offers a useful guide foe charting and the unstable course towards an integrated Lebanese identity and national union.
The first edition, “What is Wrong with Lebanon?”, was an attempt to examine the Lebanese Civil War – and indeed the nation’s history from a cultural point of view, by means of concepts drawn from the field of sociology. It set out to discuss the symptoms of Lebanese crisis and suggest methods for social and national recovery. In this new edition, the text has been revised throughout, but the core argument and suggestions remain intact, and as the reader will gather, they are still very relevant to the Lebanese situation today. What also pervades this book is the author’s firm belief that, despite the hardships, the Lebanese people could still pick up the shards of their torn society and forge them into an interactive and dynamic common cultural base. That was and remains, the hope of our beloved country. إقرأ المزيد