DIV DIVAn A-to-Z guide to the mystic poet’s maxims and aphorismsDIV /div/divDIVAn early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instilled his poetry and art with his experiences in both the East and West.
A journalist begins to piece together the truth by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, a nightwatchman, the rubbish collector who discovered him, the doctor who performed the autopsy, and a young militiaman.
Banking on the State reveals how the financial foundations of Lebanon were shaped by the history of the standardization of economic practices and financial regimes within the decolonizing world.
Future American interventions in the region would not work out quite as well. Bruce Riedel's new book tells the now-forgotten story (forgotten, that is, in the United States) of the first U.S. combat operation in the Middle East.
Hiram giveth I. KINGS , 5 . timber to Solomon 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled | Lebanon ; and my servants shall be the wisdom of all the children of the east country , and all the wisdom of Egypt . 31 For he was wiser than all men ...
... Lebanon sent me an urgent plea that the United States station some military units in Lebanon to evidence our concern for the independence of Lebanon, that little country, which itself has for about two months been subjected to civil ...