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Historical Dictionary of Lebanon First Edition
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Many of the personalities presented in this text are not presently known to English readers, and the volume easily bridges the widening gap between Arabic and English approaches to the study of Lebanese history. It also offers crucial information about rarely discussed issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, and prostitution, and delineates the ethnicities that exist in the country, making clear the balances of power that propelled Lebanon into civil war and dragged it back toward peace again. The volume includes an extensive bibliographic section with sources in Arabic, English, French, and German. An essential volume on a country that has occupied center-stage in the last decade of Middle Eastern politics.
- ISBN-100810833956
- ISBN-13978-0810833951
- EditionFirst Edition
- PublisherScarecrow Press
- Publication dateFebruary 28, 1998
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.7 x 0.88 x 8.78 inches
- Print length294 pages
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Like so many of Scarecrow's historical dictionaries, this title plugs an obvious gap and it will be a welcome addition to Middle East collections. ― Reference Reviews
...very useful and handy research tool...a commendable work that provides great help to students, scholars, and diplomats. ― Journal of Palestine Studies
AbuKhalil's Historical Dictionary of Lebanon is a step towards a more sober and informed approach to the history and politics of Lebanon. His knowledge of the country and its politics is vast and will be readily apparent to readers of his dictionary. There is much to be gained and learned from this work... ― MESA Bulletin
Especially valuable are the cross-references from Arabic to English names of organizations and groups and the many entries for newspapers and journals...An outstanding volume in this series, with thorough but intelligible description and analysis of a very complex subject. ― D. S. Straley, Ohio State University
Presents information otherwise difficult for English readers to find...well cross-referenced. ― Research and Reference Book News
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- Publisher : Scarecrow Press; First Edition (February 28, 1998)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 294 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0810833956
- ISBN-13 : 978-0810833951
- Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.7 x 0.88 x 8.78 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,823,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #662 in Lebanon History
- #2,643 in Social Sciences Reference
- #3,248 in Middle Eastern History (Books)
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AbuKhalil freely derogates those whom he dislikes. Kamil al-As'ad, the most powerful southern Lebanese leader of the 1960s and 1970s, comes off as a politician "known for his indulgence in earthly pleasures and for his contempt of the very Shi'ite peasants he ostensibly represented." Sulayman Franjiyyah, president of Lebanon during 1970-76, is an "uneducated Maronite." AbuKhalil's entry on the Beirut Arab University announces that its "quality of teaching is considered low, and its graduates are not favored in employment."
Many entries do not even minimally contribute to the understanding of "an exceedingly complex country" but deal with such subjects as agriculture, Beirut International Airport, and a mental asylum. Amusing entries abound on such Lebanese dishes as kibbi, qawarma, and tabbulah. But then, why did he leave out shawarma, humus tahini, and baklava?
AbuKhalil displays negligence; the entry on Tawfiq Yusuf `Awwad (1911-?), a literary figure killed by a Syrian shell in 1989, finds a question mark by the writer's year of death. Shouldn't a dictionary writer look up something so elementary? Ilyas Sarkis, Lebanese president during the 1976-82 period, died vaguely in the "1980s," not in 1985. Errors of fact abound: the Muslim conquest of Lebanon in the seventh century, he rewrites as "Arab." He miss-labels the moderate, Association of Islamic Charitable Projects as "fundamentalist." He provides a population figure for Beirut in 1996 (the 407,403) that is mysteriously lower than the 1975 figure (475,000). He asserts that Ely Salem, a politician and academician, completed his graduate work at the University of Cincinnati, whereas it really was at the University of Indiana.
Abu Khalil's work does not dispel "myths and illusions" but, to the contrary, it represents a setback for scholarship. The last thing this country tormented by political divisions needs is a subjective and pugnacious reference work. But that's what it got.