Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon's Post-War Challenge

by Carole H. Dagher

Book Overview

Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message': these words of Pope John Paul II illustrate Lebanon's post-war endeavor to preserve its age-old Christian-Muslim coexistence and power-sharing formula and to invalidate Samuel Huntington's assumption of a 'Clash of Civilizations.' Lebanon's current challenge is also the challenge of a whole region, the Middle East, where the fate of minorities, including Eastern Christians, reveals the prospects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312293364
• ISBN13: 9780312293369
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"