"The author develops the subject relative to the role and the practice of History in underdeveloped countries first, then in Lebanon -within the country's acknowledged geographical frontiers-: insisting on the fact that, since the beginning of the Lebanese war, thousands of analysis were conducted in order to diagnose the causes for the misfortune of the Lebanese people and to solve the crisis by proposing social, military, political, constitutional and even geographical solutions. But that none of these advocated solutions were efficient."
"History is a branch of "Human Sciences", it is then relative to the character-structure and the cultural and ideological environment of the Historian and of his audience. Considering this, any new discovery might be "taken" and integrated in the on-going ideology system, then scientific objectiveness would only be a camouflaged form of submission to this system."
"The author describes History in Lebanon, as well as in underdeveloped countries, as a subject that isn't well controlled by its specialists and is very often and easily hawked because of its irresistible emotional connotation. It is often used to make a number of "cuts" and to hide certain aspects of facts, accordingly to the environing ideology, not to teach and reconstitute the past. He concludes by proposing that school History manuals in Lebanon should be "unified". "