A History of the Druzes

A History of the Druzes
Author: Kais Firro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 428
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004094376

This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.

Beirut

Beirut
Author: Samir Kassir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520271262

Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.

The Rough Guide to Syria

The Rough Guide to Syria
Author: Andrew Beattie
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2001
Genre: Syria
ISBN: 9781858287188

The Rough Guide to Syria is the essential guide to this compact but culturally rich Middle Eastern country. Features include: Thorough accounts of all the monuments, from the ancient remains at Palmyra and Ugarit to stately mosques and hilltop crusader castles. Practical advice on shopping in the souks of Damascus and Aleppo and exploring the desert plains. Informed guidance on how to travel independently, and where to eat and sleep, in every price range. Detailed background on the country's history, culture, architecture and politics.

Lebanon

Lebanon
Author: B. Rubin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230622437

No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. This book explains the issues, events, and personalities involved in one of the globe's most dramatic and important stories.

Asian Trade Routes

Asian Trade Routes
Author: Karl Reinhold Haellquist
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136100741

First Published in 2004. These essays deal with the Western penetration of Asia from the earliest times to the recent past in the quest for trade, and by means of opening up routes and communications to bridge East and West, thereby influencing societies, economies and cultures. The relevant sections cover West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

The Making Of Modern Lebanon

The Making Of Modern Lebanon
Author: Helena Cobban
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000303179

This book provides a vivid and readable account of Lebanon's development since its first emergence in 1585, unravelling the intricacies of the sectarian/religious groups and the special kinds of communities which have sunk 900-year-old roots in the remote fastnesses of the Mount Lebanon interior.