| August 10, 1988 | | For 5 months, 'Samarcande', the novel of Amin Maalouf, the young Lebanese writer (39 years old), who lives in Paris since 1976, is a best seller in France.
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| August 16, 1988 | | The former 78 years old Chief of State, Sleiman Frangie, announces officially his candidacy for the presidential elections.
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| August 23, 1988 | | The 'Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation' (television of L.F) inaugurates channel 33, first French-speaking private television channel in the Middle East.
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| September 8, 1988 | | The deputy of Jezzine, Farid Serhal is kidnapped at a P.S.P. checkpoint in Ouzai and driven to the Bristol Hotel.
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| September 12, 1988 | | The Amid of the National Block, Raymond Edde, announces officially his candidacy for the presidential elections.
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| September 13, 1988 | | Fire exchanges between units of the Lebanese army and the Lebanese Forces in Sin-el-Fil and Mkalles killed one militiaman and injured another one.
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| September 18, 1988 | | Mikhael Daher, deputy from the North, 'was designated' candidate at the presidential elections in accordance with a Syrian-American agreement. This designation did not please everyone.
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| September 20, 1988 | | A car bomb explodes in Dora killing 3 and injuring 37 including the outgoing Minister of Information, Joseph Skaff.
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| September 22, 1988 | | A few minutes before the expiration of his mandate, President Amine Gemayel named the Maronite commander of the army, general Michel Aoun, Prime Minister of a military government. According to the constitution, the ministers' council takes over the executive power in case of a vacancy of the presidency. However, the three Muslim Ministers withdraw immediately.
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| September 23, 1988 | | General Aoun and Selim Hoss were fighting for the international recognition. The country was from now on divided in two regions run respectively in the 'East' by general Aoun and in the 'West' by Selim Hoss.
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| October 3, 1988 | | The Indian hostage Singh, resident of the United States and detained for 21 months in Lebanon, is released.
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| October 4, 1988 | | The Lebanese Forces announced an agreement on the unification of the forces in the East and took for the first time since 1975 control of the Northern Metn (barracks, offices, military positions), region considered as the fief of the former president Amine Gemayel.
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| October 12, 1988 | | The French Minister of Culture and Communication, Jack Lang, decorates the Lebanese singer Feiruz, with the distinguishing mark of the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Acording to Lang, Feiruz is the 'symbol of a country that refuses to die.'
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| October 18, 1988 | | The quorum had not been reached at the chamber of deputies, and the country found itself without legislative power and without a president of the Republic since September 23 but endowed with two executive organs.
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| October 26, 1988 | | The Israeli airforce hits again in East Saida and in Southern Beirut killing 15 persons and injuring 48.
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| November 7, 1988 | | General Antoine Lahd, Chief of the 'Army of Southern Lebanon', escapes an assassination attempt by a communist militant, Souha Bechara. She is arrested.
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| November 9, 1988 | | Adel Osseirane names General Sami Khatib, former Chief of the Arab Strike Force, Chief Commander of the Army.
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| November 25, 1988 | | West Beirut was the stage of a fresh outbreak of combats between Amal militiamen and the Hezbollah, despite the Syrian army presence.
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| November 27, 1988 | | President Takieddine Solh dies in Paris at the age of 80 following a heart attack.
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| December 2, 1988 | | General Aoun orders the closure of the Museum-Berbir junction; the passage will be re-opened 17 days later.
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| December 7, 1988 | | On the fifth day of a blockade imposed by the closure of the Museum-Berbir junction, the only supply road for fuel and food products, the bank of Lebanon gives up to the pressures and unfreezes credits for the West Beirut sector for direct importation of flour.
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| December 13, 1988 | | An agreement takes place between the employers and the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers. The minimum wage is thus increased to 25,000 LBP.
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| December 20, 1988 | | Four days after the liberation of the R.C.I.C. Swiss delegate, Peter Winkler, kidnapped in Southern Lebanon on November 17 and released on December 16, the Red Cross International Committee decides to suspend its operations in Lebanon immediately and to repatriate its delegates.
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| December 29, 1988 | | Two French little girls (Marie-Laure and Virginie Valente) kidnapped 13 months earlier are delivered by the Libyan authorities to a French government emissary. The year ends in a very tense climate. The Lebanese are wondering about their future.
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