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Author
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the murder of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a 2005 explosion, tracing the final weeks of his life, his influence on Lebanese politics, the truth about the assassination, and the repercussions of his death on the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s--the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, East and West. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami's sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s. The...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Young's book is a personal memoir of the post-2005 period in Lebanon, when the Cedar Revolution led to the pullout of the Syrian army from the country, kicking off a protracted period of domestic tension, invasions, civil war, assassinations, huge rallies, secret meetings, incessant scheming, and fear.
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