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020 $a9781906011277 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aDS80.2$b.L36 2009
082 04 $a915.69204$222
245 00 $aLebanon :$bthrough writers' eyes /$cedited by T. J. Gorton and A. Féghali Gorton.
260 $aLondon :$bEland,$c2009.
300 $a295 p. :$bill., 1 map ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"Lebanon has fallen prey to the rapacious appetites of most of the world's great powers - France, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Assyria, Alexander the Great, the Arabs, Crusaders, Persians, Mamlukes and Ottoman Turks. Vestiges of all these transient civilisations are still there: Phoenician tombs and Roman temples, Gothic castles, venerable mosques and churches all jostling for attention. The Lebanese themselves bear genetic witness to this history: dozens of ethnic and religious groups coexist uneasily, hemmed in between mountains and sea, stubbornly defending their rites and traditions in a mosaic-like society where politics informs religion and vice versa. Violence, beauty, poetry, struggle, humour, an occasional example of inspiring inter-cultural harmony - and bigotry - all are reflected through these writers' eyes."--Jacket.
651 0 $aLebanon$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aLebanon$xIn literature.
700 1 $aGorton, T. J.$q(Ted J.)
700 1 $aGorton, Feghali A.
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988 $a20100826
906 $0OCLC