Since the trial and execution of Antun Sa'adeh was held, many complex issues have been raised: Why the secrecy and haste? Was it a fair trial? Was the offence political and, if so, why did the Lebanese State refuse to treat it as such? What did the Khoury regime hope to achieve from the trial? This book answers these and many more questions.
Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the impact of the coup on Lebanese political life. This book provides an extraordinary insight into the mechanisms of military coups in the Arab world and will be of interest to students and researchers of the history and politics of the Middle East.
A short study of the life and intellectual career of Khalil Sa'adeh (more commonly known as "Dr. Sa'adeh" to distinguish him from his son, Antun Sa'adeh). It demonstrates the breadth of Dr. Sa'adeh's oeuvre and contribution to literary and political knowledge during the nahda (Enlightenment) era of the late nineteenth century in Syria and Egypt.
Archbishop Capucci speaks openly about smuggling weapons and explosives for the PLO, his eventual arrest, trial and imprisonment in Israel, and his friendship with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
Since the trial and execution of Antun Sa'adeh was held, many complex issues have been raised: Why the secrecy and haste? Was it a fair trial? Was the offence political and, if so, why did the Lebanese State refuse to treat it as such? What did the Khoury regime hope to achieve from the trial? This book answers these and many more questions.
Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the impact of the coup on Lebanese political life. This book provides an extraordinary insight into the mechanisms of military coups in the Arab world and will be of interest to students and researchers of the history and politics of the Middle East.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right.
Adel, a Christian Lebanese-American, devastated by the religious war in Lebanon and tormented by his Jehovah witness wife, Nadia, in California, got drunk and lost in the dark streets of South Central Los Angeles. He met Lisa, a Jewish blonde American, in a miraculous way. She stormed him up with love and converted his miserable life into a rainbow of happiness. His wife caused him to go to jail. He told his life story in jail to an inmate, John Webb; how his life was a valley of tears and Lisa took him to the new world which he depicted in his dreams. Many strange events occurred during their relationship concerning his wife, daughter Jane, and her son Brian. For Adel, life and death make the first chapter of the book of life and there is no happiness without a true love. Lisa was for him a sphere and all life in rhythmic fragments moved within her. She sang with the days and dreamed with the nights. She walked on the shores of life and the wind of the ocean cannot erase her foot-prints, they will remain forever. She was a sweet thought in the mind of God before he sent her into the world through a womb of a chosen woman.
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