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| Historical Dictionary of Lebanon Scarecrow Press Inc. 1998 The author, a political science teacher, describes -in this dictionary that does not include women- the Lebanese society and culture through accounts concerning political leaders, poets, artists, actors, writers, musicians, singers, important events and places, political parties, militia groups, foreign interests, and military elements; showing their complexities as the result of a unique political system and a richly diverse population and making clear the balances of power that propelled Lebanon into civil war and dragged it back toward peace again. |
| Le Liban PUF (Que sais-je ?) 2000 The history, the geographical and political situation of Lebanon with an analysis of the period covering the Civil War and the reconstruction. |
| United States and the 1958 Lebanon Crisis : American Intervention in the Middle East University Press of America 1994 A study on the U.S.-Middle East relations between 1953 and 1957: The U.S. Policy relatively to the Lebanese Crisis. Their intervention and its aftermath, as well as the consequences of the Lebanese Crisis for U.S.-Middle East Policy. |
| Histoire du Liban contemporain, tome 1 : 1860-1943 Fayard 1997 A long introduction on Lebanon in the past, followed by the modern period starting the 19th. century which is the long path towards independence. |
| Le Liban, Guerre Civile ou Conflit International? : à partir du milieu du XIXe siècle Imprimerie al-Hurriyat 1980 A study of the people's revolts in Mount Lebanon under Ottoman authority, 1840 et 1860, and the international influences behind the local parties. |
| Lebanon in the 1950s I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. in Association With the Centre of Lebanese Studies), 2002 The author explains the truth behind the intrigues and politics that dominated Lebanon in the 1950s that were marked by social and political conflicts and bitter fighting. |
| Toward a Viable Lebanon Croon Helm publications 1988 The viability of Lebanon, with consideration given to practical solutions to reconstructing the country: An analysis of the socioeconomic, religious and historical forces that led to the civil war, and its social and psychological consequences. |
| Lebanon in Strife : Student Preludes to the Civil War University of Texas Press 1977 A prelude to the Lebanese Civil War: The development of the student movement concerned with the question of national identity and struggle for independence that began to emerge . . . when the struggle for independence started to take shape in the Middle East and the rest of the Third World countries. |
| La Passion des chrétiens du Liban France-Empire 1979 The deep roots of the Lebanese Civil War: in a distant past the traces of which are still in the collective consciousness of the people. The author relates the 1860 crisis, 1914-1918, 1943's burst; all in order to better understand the Civil War. |
| Le Liban; Itinéraire dans une Guerre Incivile CERMOC 1993 Account of a shattered society, torn communities, sacked cities, hurt childhood, in Lebanon's History. What led to the war. And about coexistence of Islam and Christianity. |
| Introduction à l'Histoire Politique du Liban Moderne (du 17e. siècle à 1943) FMA 1993 A study on the relation of the events in Lebanon and their interpretation: the history of this country from the 17th. Century until 1943 in order to comprehend the conflicts that tore it during the 16 years of civil war. |
| Le conflit intraétatique au Liban, Problèmes de maintien de la paix Bruylant (Organisation internationale et Relations internationales) 1994 This work analyses the specific consequences and problems created by intra-state conflicts in all regions where even the UN can't find a solution to maintain the peace; specifically in Lebanon. |
| Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982 Applegate Press 2002 This book details the American role in trying to moderate Sharon's siege of Beirut in 1982 -that ended up in causing the death of thousands of Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese civilians-. It is the story of how the American diplomat Philip Habib raced to conclude Sharon's siege peacefully. |
| Les Phéniciens : Aux origines du Liban Decouvertes Gallimard 1998 A small work on this ancient civilization with many illustrations showing archeological and antiques. |
| Mémorial du Liban (volume 3): Le Mandat Camille Chamoun 1952-1958 Ed. Joseph Chami The political, economic and social evolution under Camille Chamoun's presidency. |
| Le Mémorial du Liban, Volume 1: Du Mont-Liban à l'Indépendance: 1861-1943 2002 A collection destined to the young Lebanese who have no memory, no reference concerning the history of their country: Lebanon daily out of from media information: a chronology of facts month after month, developing the principal events, political, cultural, social- and analyzing them. |
| Sud Liban scénarios de crise 2001 The two wars happening at the same time: the one the U.S.A. launched against terrorism after September 11th, 2001; the second one: the Israeli-Palestinian war that had started one year earlier.. Both turning the attention away from the Lebanese-Israeli hot spot. |
| Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2003 A study of the centuries-long contact between Iran and Lebanon on the religious, political, and cultural levels. |
| La bataille de l'eau au Proche Orient L’Harmattan (Comprendre le Moyen-Orient), 1993 The crucual issue of water in the Near-Easr relatively to the future of the region and the control of which by the States has become a highly strategic stake. |
| The Fateful Triangle : The United States, Israel and the Palestinians South End Press Classics Series 1999, 2nd ed. updated The American domination of the Middle East region: the policy of the United States towards Israel concerning the Palestinians until 1983. Three new chapters in this edition: the Palestinian uprising; Israel's war on Lebanon; the ongoing peace process. |
| State & Society in Syria & Lebanon, 1919-1991 Saint Martin's Press LLC 1994 A comparative study of the neighboring Middle Eastern countries since the end of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate, and the struggles for independence to the 1991 treaty of cooperation: government policies and practices, economics, and concepts of Arabism and nationalism. |
| La Méditerranée; Espace de Conflits, Espace de Rêve L'Harmattan 2001 A selection of articles covering the period between 1993 and 2000, on the Mediterranean and the Middle-East conflicts. |
| Le Proche-Orient éclaté, 1956-2000 Gallimard (Folio) 1999 The history of the Middle-East since 1956 until today: The author examines the value and the consequences of the numerous attempts for peace in this region and the life of its people. |
| Liban: Les Guerres de l'Europe et de l'Orient 1840-1992 Folio (coll. Actuel) 1992 Complete information on the -local, regional and international- historical and sociological data on the Lebanese issue over more than one century; explaining today's Lebanon's situation. |
| Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon's Post-War Challenge [Le Défi du Liban d'Après Guerre. Faites Tomber les Murs] english ed. St. Martin's Press, 2000; french ed. L'Harmattan -Comprendre le Moyen-Orient 2002 After the 16 year-old Lebanese war: prospects for Lebanon's communal representation system and pluralistic society. |
| Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process Palgrave Macmillan 2003 "A book on the ways of dictatorship in Syria; offering an analysis of the Syrian regime of Hafez Assad; demonstrating that Syria's role in the Middle East has been, since 1974, an unabated terrorist war against all attempts to resolve peacefully the Arab-Israeli conflict; providing evidence that Syria's role in Lebanon, since 1975, has been to perpetuate the conflict among the various Lebanese communities in order to keep its domination of Lebanon." |
| La France au Levant : des croisades à nos jours : Liban, Syrie, Palestine, Egypte, Israël Pygmalion 2001 The author sheds a light in the innumerable rivalries -Christianity and Islam, France and Spain, France and Great Britain, the Arab World and Israel- Lebanon was used as a stake for. |
| L'Invasion Israélienne du Liban, 1982: Origines, Finalités et Effets Pervers L'Harmattan An analysis of the israeli-arab conflict through an exhaustive investigation covering sociological concepts and international relations. |
| The Breakdown of the state in Lebanon 1967-1976 I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1999 The author, -a Professor of Political Studies-, explores a divided society with an open political system in order to understand "why did the Lebanese state, the most open and democratic in the Middle East, break down between 1967 and 1976?" |
| War and Intervention in Lebanon: The Israeli-Syrian Deterrence Dialogue Johns Hopkins University Press 1987 The background of the Lebanese civil war: Israeli strategy and Syrian military action from 1975 through the mid-1980s. “indirectly channeled through Washington.” |
| Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861 The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 A study of the civil conflict in Lebanon analyzing thirty critical and determinant years in the shaping of the modern politics and patterns of foreign intervention in Lebanon. |
| South Lebanon Association of Arab-American University Graduates 1978 Informative short book about South Lebanon and the historical events that have affected the region. |
| State and Society in Lebanon Tufts University and the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford 1991 War in Lebanon broke out whenever some social, economic, or political event upset its delicate balance and disrupted the equilibrium. |
| An Occasion for War : Lebanon and Damascus in the 1860s The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993 The 1860 civil wars in Mount Lebanon which spilled over to Syria to become "the most severe sectarian outbreak in the history of Ottoman Syria and Lebanon." |
| Inventing Lebanon I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002 The author, a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa, shows how the influence of the French Mandate in Lebanon "accentuated the divisions already inherent in this multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, paving the way for the instability and wars that have plagued the country ever since". |
| Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon Oxford Paperbacks 2001 (latest edition) Journalist Fisk tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of a Western blindness and arrogance that has led, inevitably, to political and military catastrophy in Lebanon. |
| Lebanon, the fractured country ed. M. Robertson 1983 The author explains why civil war was inevitable in Lebanon; "political instability being an unavoidable and necessary occurrence within the Lebanese society". |
| Liban - Deux Peuples ne font pas une Nation ed. Godefroy de bouillon 1997 The pact of 1943 that stated that Lebanon would be independent of any Western or Arab influence was never respected. Which marked the beginning of a cold war between Muslims and Christians, aggravated by the creation of the state of Israel. |
| Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a State and Rise of a Nation I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993 The war in Lebanon has been primarily a surrogate war over Palestine which escalated into a conflict between the diverse Lebanese communities. |
| Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions Wiener Pub. 2001 The country's geography, sects, and politics; an overview of Lebanon's political history from 1920 to 1989; and an analysis of the country's recent past. |
| Nihayat Al-Jidar Al-Tayyib: Sirat Al-Ihhtilal Al-Isra'ili Li Loubnan, 1976-2001 Riad el-Rayyes 2001 The "frontier" the Israelis put between their land and the land of Lebanon in 1976 pretending they put it there for positive relations on all levels between both countries. And which Israel "admits" today, in 2001, didn't serve its -so-called- purpose. |
| Les Phéniciens Fayard 1996 The Phoenicians, their civilization, commerce and adventures through the seas. |
| Lebanon On Hold Royal Institute of International Affairs 1996 A special paper from the Middle East Programme containing analytical essays (by 17 international specialists) on the reassessment of Lebanon's position in the Middle East peace process after the Israeli attack of April 1996 -from a Lebanese perspective-, and on how to bring a viable peace to the region. |
| History of the Arab Peoples Belknap Press 2002 [updated - 1st ed. 1991] A panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. This new edition includes such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001.The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq, and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians. |
| Civilian Pawns: Laws of War Violations and the Use of Weapons on the Israel-Lebanon Border Human Rights Watch / Middle East 1996 "This report exposes the inherent fragility of the informal, unwritten "undertandings” between Israel and Hizballah, that, rather than serving to protect civilians -civilian populations of Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel- have created a situation in which civilians are caught in a web of retaliatory violence and in which the killing of civilians has become the ultimate threat and expected response for any transgression of the understandings by either side.” |
| Battle of Beirut: Why Israel Invaded Lebanon Zed Press 1982 "Book condemning Israel's invasion, through which Jansen does not hide her sympathy for the Palestinians, nor for the innocent Lebanese caught in the crossfire of their conflict with the Israelis. She places the invasion firmly in the context of previous Israeli aggression and expansionism, showing clearly that it differed only in degree-not in kind-from earlier Israeli operations." |
| All Honourable Men: the Social Origins of War in Lebanon The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002 The author explains the Lebanese civil war through "ethnic conflict": by examining "the history of confessional or ethnic identity in Lebanon and the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s". |
| Struggle for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 The author, a freelance journalist and translator, explains Lebanon's survival mainly from the 1950s to 1970s in the minefield of Arab politics and its relations with Egypt during the period 1952-70 that have passed through several phases. |
| Histoire de Beyrouth Fayard 2003 Set between East and West, Beirut has attracted invaders: Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelouks and Ottomans; and it was only starting the 20th Century that the expansion of the silk industry triggered the commercial ascent of Beirut, which also set itself as one of the centers of the Arab Cultural Renaissance. Throughout the 20th Century, Beirut enhanced its financial role in the region. In 1975, the war divided the Lebanese capital in two. And starting 1990, it is rebuilding itself, almost as quickly as it had been destroyed. |
| La Guerre du Liban : de la Dissension Nationale au Conflit Régional (1975-1982) CERMOC 1994 How does Lebanon get at war? Who are the protagonists? How does violence happen again and again, in spite of the numerous stops to the conflicts? How do the Lebanese people live through this ordeal? |
| Civil and Uncivil Violence: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict in Lebanon Columbia University Press 2002 Analysis of the history of human strife and political violence in Lebanon which is 'now at crossroads in its process of political and social transformation'. |
| Le Désordre Libanais L'Harmattan 1998 Lebanon's history of wars since Amioun's fightings in 695 until the recent Syrian conquest. |
| The maronites: history and constants The Maronite Heritage Publications 2001 The illustrated (600 photos) history of the Maronites of Lebanon describing "their belief of God, their attachment to human rights, freedom, justice and sovereignty [and] impregnated with the spirit of martyrdom, sanctity and heroism." |
| U.S. Intervention in Lebanon, 1958 and 1982: Presidential Decision Making Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated 1991 Comparative study on the intervention of the United States in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982, 'which contrasts the decision making of Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan and the quality and results of their choices.' |
| Bilan des guerres du Liban 1975-1990 L'Harmattan (coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient) 1993 An assessment of the human losses during the Lebanese Civil War, as well as the loss in education and culture, economic losses, and the forces migrations of the population inside and outside the country. |
| Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient: l'Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours Armand Colin 1999 The contemporary History of the Middle-East: political, economic, social and cultural events; In order to understand wars, conflicts, terrorism and the peace process in this region for half a century. |
| Le Grand Jeu: Orient arabe et rivalités internationales depuis 1945 Armand Colin 1991 The evolution of the political regimes of Arab countries since 1945; international relations and the numerous conflicts in this region since 1945. |
| Guerres secrètes au Liban Gallimard 1987 A book about the regional and international actors behind the Middle-East crisis. |
| Un secret atomique : La Bombe iranienne ou la véritable histoire des otages français au Liban Les Arènes 2002 This Books reveals what Jacques Chirac really conceded to Iran's Ayatollah's in 1988 to free the French Hostages; why François Mitterrand signed, in 1991, a secret agreement that makes of France one of the principal partners of Iran in their atomic plan; and shows that after September 11th, the "nuclear relations" between both countries are more "explosive" than ever. |
| Lebanon: Death of a Nation Anchor Book Published by Doubleday 1990 (1st edition 1989; post-script in 1991) The History of Lebanon, its conflicts and wars, and stories in Lebanon throughout its History. |
| Lessons of Lebanon : The Economics of War and Development IBTauris 2004 “The text offers an in-depth analysis of Lebanese economic development during the second half of the 20th century, with special emphasis on the civil war and its aftermath. Makdissi offers a definitive assessment of the principal phases of national development since Lebanese independence in the 1940s, and a study of those conditions requisite for sustainable development for Lebanon, as for many other developing countries.” |
| Lebanon Mason Crest Publishers 2002 Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and major cities of Lebanon. |
| Les Secrets de la Guerre du Liban : du coup d’Etat de Béchir Gemayel aux massacres des camps Palestiniens Albin Michel 2004 The author tells about two crucial years (1980-1982) when the Israelis, with the help of the United States, allowed Béchir Gemayel’s Christian Lebanese Forces to have power over Beirut. He presents the Coup d’Etat’s secret negotiations with Israel. With the assassination of Béchir Gemayel end the invasion of the Israeli troops inside Lebanon, the political-military scheme collapsed… |
| Les Secrets de la Guerre du Liban Albin Michel 2001 The account (with unpublished archives) of two crucial years - 1980 / 1982 - during the Lebanese war, when the Israelis, with the United States blessing, allowed Béchir Gemayel's 'Lebanese Forces' to rule Beirut. |
| Constitution Libanaise et Accord de Taëf: Textes et Commentaires Les Editions l'Orient 1995 The Lebanese Constitution that has been the same for so long, the National Pact that governs cohabitation, harmony amongst the communities, both to which has been added the National Agreement written in Taef that goes back over the unwritten 1943 National Pact and the constitutional customs. |
| Maronites in History University Press 1986 This first monograph written in English on the Maroniteis is a historical study of the Maronites, an Eastern church of Syrian origin which has been in communion with Rome since the twelfth century. |
| The Collapse and Reconstruction of Lebanon Garnet Publishing (Durham Middle East Papers) 1999 'Analysis of the causes of the breakdown of the post-1943 Lebanese political system, and the effects of the subsequent war on the system'. |
| Lebanon: The Politics of a Penetrated Society Routledge 2003 "….A concise and lucid account of contemporary Lebanese society through both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from the civil war combined with essential pre-war elements to define the contemporary political processes in Lebanon." |
| De Gaulle et le Liban, Vers l'Orient compliqué (1929-1931) Editions Geuthner-Paris 2002 The relations between Lebanon and General DeGaulle who resided in Lebanon for two years and played a determininf role in its Independence. |
| Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92 Palgrave 1998 The author -a British journalist- tells the story of the Lebanese Civil War (1975 to 1992) 'noted for massacres, treachery, atrocities, kidnapping, assassination, changing alliances of convenience, and invasion' through its chronology, the prelude to it, and the post-war 'National Survival. |
| Les Phéniciens : l'expansion phénicienne, Carthage Gallimard, (L'Univers des formes) 1975 This book is constituted by three parts: "The Phoenician Ambivalence" by André Parrot; "The Phoenicians in the Near-East" by Maurice M. Chéhab; "The Phoenicians in the West" by Sabatino Moscati; plus general documentation |
| Struggle over Lebanon Monthly Review Press 1987 Analysis of the origins and development of the Lebanese Civil War, and the role of foreign powers and the local leadership that allied itself to them. |
| Lebanon: A Shattered Country Holmes & Meier Publishers 2001 (1st ed. 1996) An analysis of The interplay of 'communal conflicts and outside forces' and their effect on the Lebanese social balance. |
| La Déchirure Libanaise ed. Complexe 1989 The author, a historian who has lived several years in Lebanon, tells about this country 'hostage of its neighbouring countries', the 'Place of the Middle-East crisis': a analysis of the complicated logic and a demystification of the matter in order to understand 'because understanding is our prior responsibility towards Lebanon'. |
| Lebanon Odyssey Publications 2002 A book with maps and photographs illustrating Lebanon's history: trades, conquest, that led the Lebanese people to become diverse in culture and beliefs, and where, recently, religious differences led to civil war. |
| The War for Lebanon: 1970-1985 Cornell University Press 1984 An analysis of the 'interplay between Lebanon's domestic politics and developments in the larger Middle East' from 1970 to 1985, as 'a conflict of domestic and external forces seeking to shape and control the Lebanese entity': the collapse of the Lebanese political system between 1970 & 1975; the civil war of 1975-76; the lingering crisis of the years 1976-82; the war of 1982. |
| La guerre de mille ans Grasset 1984 The author, a reporter from the Washington post, watched a few of the main actors of the Lebanese tragedy and tried to understand their actions. |
| L'identité pluriculturelle libanaise IDLivre, coll. Esquilles 2001 The dialogue between cultures appears today to be one of the essential conditions for the survival of our democracy and our freedom. |
| Liban IDLivre 2004 The author analyzes all the historical, political, socio-cultural and economical aspects of Lebanon which plays an important role in the geopolitics of a region that is one of the “hot points” of the planet. |
| Lebanon's injured identities: who represents whom during a civil war Papers on Lebanon no. 2, Center of Lebanese Studies, Oxford 1986 'Papers on Lebanon are a series of analytical essays dealing with historical, political and economic issues contributed by the Center of Lebanese Studies' staff and other scholars in the field.' |
| Violence and diplomacy in Lebanon: the troubled years, 1982-1988 I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1995 'Lebanon . . . the site for regional and international conflict played out through its warring communities' in the eighties, since the Israeli invasion. |
| A House of Many Mansions. The History of Lebanon Reconsidered I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1993 The historical myths on which Lebanon's warring communities have based their conflicting visions of the Lebanese nation. |
| Tarikh Loubnan Al-Hadith Dar An-Nahar 1991 (first ed. 1967) An objective account of the History of Modern Lebanon throughout the last two centuries. |
| Histoire du Liban : du XVIIe à nos jours Naufal 1988 The creation of Lebanon's republic, Mount Lebanon and the Emirs, and the 'big mistakes' that have matured with time and ended up in a Civil War. |
| Modern History of Lebanon Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. 1976 Short account of the evolution of modern Lebanon: 'the social and economic forces underlying the evolution of the confessional basis of modern Lebanon's policy.' |
| Histoire de la Guerre du Liban PUF, 2000, 1st ed. 1993 Through a theoretical and chronological analysis, the author tries to demonstrate the failure of projects, plans and initiatives and attempts for the country and its capacity to resist. |
| Le Liban-Sud: espace périphérique, espace convoité L'Harmattan (coll. Comprendre le Moyen-Orient) 1989 A study on the situation in South Lebanon in an attempt to explain the conflicts between the multiple and changing protagonists. |
| Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus The Centre for lebanese Studies (CLS) & I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1988 This volume is the outcome of a conference organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in Oxford in September, 1987, written by a group of scholars and experts on Lebanon and cover themes that explain both the roots of the Lebanese conflict and the basis for resolving it. |
| Israël au Liban: la fin de trente ans d'occupation ? ed. de la Revue d'Etudes Palestiniennes, Beyrouth Minuit 2000 An explanation on the situation of South-Lebanon territories, occupied by Israel for 30 years: the occupation, the 'Islamic', Palestinian and Lebanese resistance. Syria's, Israel's and Lebanon's attitude. Study of the 425 resolution. |
| The Longest War New York: Vintage Books, 1982; Chatto and Windus, 2001 1982, 2001 'Book condemning Israel's invasion, but through which Timerman sees the invasion as an aberration from what he imagines to be the mainstream of Zionist ethics. Much of the book is given over to lengthy descriptions of the psychological traumas that Israelis who opposed the war suffered.' |
| Sourat al-Fata bil-Ahmar: Ayyam fil-Silm wal-Harb A Portrait of the Young Man in Red: Chronicles of Peace and War Riad el-Rayyes Books 1997 A book on a political itinerary covering a long period of time focusing on principal events of the modern Arad History written as a memoir of an adventurer going from place to place, and from time to time. |
| Kadiyyat Lubnan al-Wataniyyat wal-Dimukratiyyat Dar al-Taliaat 1978 A book written in memory of Kamal Joumblat and dedicated to the Lebanese National Movement, regrouping articles published in "Al-Hourriyyat" magazine from 1973 to 1976, on the principal events related to the Lebanese Civil War, telling about it from the Lebanese National Movement's point of view. |
| Vie et Mort des Chrétiens d'Orient: des origines à nos jours Fayard 1994 What's the fate of the Christians of the Middle-east locked up in a status of 'protected minority' by the muslims, thus devoided of any rights and under the domination of the Islamic religion. |
| Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khazin Sheiks and the Maronite Church (1736-1840) Brill Academic Publishers Inc. 1994 An analysis of the influence of external forces -European, Syrian and Ottoman, the Vatican-, and internal factors -the role of religious foundations, or waqfs- that can explain the remarkable political role of the Maronite Church in the history of Mount Lebanon in the 19th century, through socio-economic transformations. |
| Murder, Mayhem, Pillage and Plunder : The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries State University of New York Pr., 1998 Detailed history of Lebanon in the 19th century: the ruling sheikhs, the religious divisions, as well as the various domestic and foreign players in the author’s personal opinion. |
| Lebanon: War & Politics in a Fragmented Society Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd 1996 'History and political analysis of Lebanon from ancient times to the present day; on the civil and sectarian strife that has characterized the country's past and contemporary history.' |
| Lebanons Quest, the Road to Statehood 1929-1939 I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 Analysis of the forming of inter- and intra-sectarian relations in Lebanon between 1929 and 1939. |
| Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 The history of Lebanon since its independence: the forming of its character that 'explains' its future 'both rich and successful and troubled and tragic.' |
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