Constructing Lebanon
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Constructing Lebanon
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Author : Elise Salem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01
Constructing Lebanon written by Elise Salem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01 with History categories.
Through an examination of Lebanese literary narratives and musical theater, Constructing Lebanon offers a vehicle for understanding Lebanon's cultural and political evolution as a nation over the last century. It redresses the lack of scholarship on the symbiotic relationship between nation and culture, especially in Arab studies, by presenting both descriptive and prescriptive models of how a nation can be "read" through literary productions. Elise Salem provides valuable close readings of many Lebanese literary texts written in Arabic, including lesser-known fiction, popular culture narratives, and plays written and produced during the Lebanese civil war and postwar period. Using this framework, Salem examines the construction of nationalist mythology in Lebanon and illustrates how nationalist and regional politics influence cultural productions. Rereading Gibran Khalil Gibran, for example, with the idea of nation in mind reveals that his works are replete with formative ideas on Lebanese identity. Besides analyzing an extensive body of literature from the 20th century, Salem also draws from cultural productions, especially the popular Rahbani and Fayruz musicals that proved to be central to Lebanese consciousness. This pioneering attempt to propel the study of Lebanese nationalism beyond the confines of ideology and political parties sharpens our understanding of this evolving nation, from its early inception and development to its demise and current reconstruction.
The Making Of Modern Lebanon
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Author : Helena Cobban
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Making Of Modern Lebanon written by Helena Cobban and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Political Science categories.
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.
The Making Of Modern Lebanon
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Author : Helena Cobban
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Making Of Modern Lebanon written by Helena Cobban and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Re Constructing Armenia In Lebanon And Syria
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Author : Nicola Migliorino
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2008
Re Constructing Armenia In Lebanon And Syria written by Nicola Migliorino and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Medical categories.
For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Armenian community. Since 1970, the coming to power of the Asad family has contributed to a partial recovery of Armenian ethno-cultural diversity, as the community seems to have developed some form of tacit arrangement with the regime. In Lebanon, on the other hand, the Armenian community suffered the consequences of the recurrent breakdown of the consociational arrangement that regulates public life. In both cases the survival of Armenian cultural distinctiveness seems to be connected, rather incidentally, with the continuing 'search for legitimacy' of the state.
Rebellion Myth Making And Nation Building
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Author : Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Rebellion Myth Making And Nation Building written by Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Lebanon categories.
Sectarianism And Intercommunal Nation Building In Lebanon
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Author : Hanna Ziadeh
language : ar
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2006
Sectarianism And Intercommunal Nation Building In Lebanon written by Hanna Ziadeh and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Sectarian conflict, foreign interventions and a constant search for inter-communal compromise have been dominant themes in Lebanese history. This book draws together for the first time the entire corpus of national pacts and constitutional texts which have demarcated the major ruptures of Lebanese history. In his introduction Hanna Ziadeh explains how a constant state of communal tension regularly led to sectarian conflict.
Armenians Beyond Diaspora
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Author : Tsolin Nalbantian
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Armenians Beyond Diaspora written by Tsolin Nalbantian and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Political Science categories.
This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.
Lebanon
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Author : William W. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-07-19
Lebanon written by William W. Harris and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with History categories.
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.
Projecting Beirut
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Author : Peter G. Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 1998
Projecting Beirut written by Peter G. Rowe and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
This volume provides criticism and commentaries from specialists directly involved in the rebuilding process -- a comprehensive survey of Beirut reborn.
Lebanon
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Author : William Harris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-11
Lebanon written by William Harris and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-11 with History categories.
In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of local chiefs under external powers from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The chiefs began interacting in a common arena when Druze lord Fakhr al-Din Ma'n achieved domination of the mountain within the Ottoman imperial framework in the early seventeenth century. Harris knits together the subsequent interplay of the elite under the Sunni Muslim Shihab relatives of the Ma'ns after 1697 with demographic instability as Maronites overtook Shia as the largest community and expanded into Druze districts. By the 1840s many Maronites conceived the common arena as their patrimony. Maronite/Druze conflict ensued. Modern Lebanon arose out of European and Ottoman intervention in the 1860s to secure sectarian peace in a special province. In 1920, after the Ottoman collapse, France and the Maronites enlarged the province into the modern country, with a pluralism of communal minorities headed by Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. The book considers the flowering of this pluralism in the mid-twentieth century, and the strains of new demographic shifts and of social resentment in an open economy. External intrusions after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war rendered Lebanon's contradictions unmanageable and the country fell apart. Harris contends that Lebanon has not found a new equilibrium and has not transcended its sects. In the early twenty-first century there is an uneasy duality: Shia have largely recovered the weight they possessed in the sixteenth century, but Christians, Sunnis, and Druze are two-thirds of the country. This book offers readers a clear understanding of how modern Lebanon acquired its precarious social intricacy and its singular political character.