Titlebook: Bring Down the Walls; Lebanon‘s Post-War C Carole H. Dagher Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000 democracy.

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Muslim Self-Assertioniritual bearing as well as its rebellion-drenched history on Shi‘a conscience. Jabal ‘Amel is for the Shi‘a community what Mount-Lebanon is for the Maronites: their geographical and historical cradle and a sacred place that condenses the spirit of the “nation-community.”.

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Dialogue: A Necessity or a Burden? and skepticism when it is evoked. Most of the Lebanese are scathing on that subject. They have attached to dialogue whimsical labels such as “mutual deceit” and “reciprocal trickery,” signaling through contempt that dialogue hasn’t so far led to an open and frank national debate. The general convic

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Sharing Exilefirmed what they dreaded most: their physical and geographical presence was shrinking to a level where historians, researchers, and demographers could legitimately wonder if they had reached a point of “no return.”

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A Synod for Lebanonbay. At 900 meters from sea level, the Apostolic Nunciature beckons its visitors in its well-trimmed gardens neighboring the immense statue of Mary overlooking the Mediterranean. With his transparent glasses that underline vivid blue eyes, Papal Nuncio Pablo Puente is one of the sharpest diplomats L

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Three Weeks in Romen heads and members of religious and monastic orders, seventeen “experts” and special assistants to the Secretary of the Synod, twenty-five priests, nuns and lay “auditors,” one representative of the Middle East Council of Churches, and eight “fraternal delegates”: five representing the Greek-Orthod

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The Swings of the Pendulumnew concept poked through the political lexicon: . Christian disenchantment. This disenchantment stemmed from the broad feeling of the Christian population that, despite the no-winner-no-loser formula adopted in Ta‘if, in terms of a confessionalist group logic, there was no doubt about who the winne

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Coexistence in Uniform role in domestic and foreign affairs and is certain to play a key role in the political transformations many countries in the region are experiencing or likely to experience over the next several years. The military and society in the Middle East have a close relationship and its effects on interna

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