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SYRIA & LEBANON

 

Syria's History
     The Syrian Civil War
     Twentieth Century to the Present
     Byzantine to Ottoman Empires
     Ancient History
Syria's Art, Literature, and Language
Syria's Regional & International Relations
Syrian Occupation and Influence in Lebanon
Lebanon's History
     General
     The Lebanese Civil War
Hezbollah
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List Published: 3/28/05
List Revised: 7/31/06
Last Updated: 3/18/14


Syria’s History

     The Syrian Civil War
     Twentieth Century to the Present
     Byzantine to Ottoman Empires
     Ancient History

Syria’s History: The Syrian Civil War

The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
Gilbert Achcar
ISBN-13: 9780520274976 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520280519 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520956544
University of California Press, 2013

Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran
Steven Heydemann, Reinoud Leenders, editors
ISBN-13: 9780804783019 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780804784351
Stanford University Press, 2013

Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad
David W. Lesch
ISBN-13: 9780300197228 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2013

Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
Joshua Stacher
ISBN-13: 9780804780629 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804780636 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780804782098
Stanford University Press, 2012

Syria’s History: Twentieth Century to the Present

Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity
Richard T. Antoun, Donald Quataert, editors
ISBN-10: 0791407136 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791407134 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 1991

Syria’s Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics
Hanna Batatu
ISBN-10: 0691002541 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691002545 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 1999
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Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
John Borneman
ISBN-13: 9780691128870 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2007

Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government
Nathan J. Brown
ISBN-10: 0791451577 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791451585 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791451571 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791451588 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2001

Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair
Adeed Dawisha
ISBN-10: 0691102732 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0691122725 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691102733 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691122724 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2002
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The Claims of Culture at Empire's End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
Jennifer M. Dueck
ISBN-13: 9780197264478 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East
Fatma Muge Gocek, editor
ISBN-10: 0791451976 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791451984 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791451977 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791451984 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2002

Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
Bassam Haddad
ISBN-13: 9780804773324 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804785068 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780804778411
Stanford University Press, 2011

Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970
Steven Heydemann
ISBN-10: 0801429323 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801429323 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 1999
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Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria
Raphael Lefevre
ISBN-13: 9780199330621 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2013

The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria
David W. Lesch
ISBN-10: 0300109911 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300109917 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2005
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Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution
Thomas Pierret
ISBN-13: 9781107609907 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2013

The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
Michael Provence
ISBN-10: 0292706359 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0292706804 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780292706354 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292706804 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2005
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A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria
Christa Salamandra
ISBN-10: 0253344670 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0253217229 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780253344670 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253217226 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2004
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Preserving the Old City of Damascus
Faedah M. Totah
ISBN-13: 9780815633495 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780815652625
Syracuse University Press, 2014

Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
Keith David Watenpaugh
ISBN-10: 0691121699 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691121697 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Lisa Wedeen
ISBN-10: 0226877876 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0226877884 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780226877877 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226877884 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 1999

Asad’s Legacy: Syria in Transition
Eyal Zisser
ISBN-10: 0814796974 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780814796979 (cloth)
New York University Press, 2001
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Syria’s History: Byzantine to Ottoman Empires

White Banners: Contention in ‘Abbasid Syria, 750-880
Paul M. Cobb
ISBN-10: 0791448797 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791448800 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791448793 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791448809 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2001

Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of the Empire
James L. Gelvin
ISBN-10: 0520210700 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520210707 (paper)
University of California Press, 1999
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Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920
Philip S. Khoury
ISBN-10: 0521533236 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521533232 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2003

Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800–1980
Norman N. Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780521103275 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
Heath W. Lowry
ISBN-10: 0791456366 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791456361 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2003

The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840
Margaret L. Meriwether
ISBN-13: 9780292752245 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1999

Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries
Hakan Ozoglu
ISBN-10: 0791459934 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791459935 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 2004

The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
Dana Sajdi
ISBN-13: 9780804785327 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780804788281
Stanford University Press, 2013

In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith Tucker
ISBN-10: 0520224744 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520224742 (paper)
University of California Press, 1998
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Syria’s History: Ancient History

The Archaeology of Syria
Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz
ISBN-10: 052179666 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521796668 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2004

Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History
Trevor Bryce
ISBN-13: 9780199646678 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, April 2014

Roman Syria and the Near East
Kevin Butcher
ISBN-10: 0892367156 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780892367153 (cloth)
Getty Publications, 2003
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Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity
Daniel Caner
ISBN-10: 0520233247 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520233249 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780520928503
University of California Press, 2002
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Qusayr 'Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Garth Fowden
ISBN-10: 0520236653 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520236653 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780520929609
University of California Press, 2004
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Europe and the Islamic World: A History
John Tolan, Henry Laurens, Gilles Veinstein
ISBN-13: 9780691147055 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781400844753
Princeton University Press, 2012
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Syria’s Art, Literature, and Language

The Pages of Day and Night
Adonis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id), translated by Samuel Hazo
ISBN-10: 0810160811 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780810160811 (paper)
Northwestern University Press, 2000
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Passage to Dusk
Rashid al-Daif
ISBN-10: 0292705077 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780292705074 (paper)
University of Texas Press, distributed for UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2001

Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing (Second Edition)
Margot Badran, Miriam Cooke, editors
ISBN-10: 0253205778 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780253205773 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2004
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Kurdish-English Dictionary
Michael L. Chyet, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz
ISBN-10: 0300091524 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300091526 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2003

Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official
Miriam Cooke
ISBN-13: 9780822340164 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822340355 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2007
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A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic with Audio CD
Mark W. Cowell
ISBN-10: 1589010515 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781589010512 (paper)
Georgetown University Press, 2005
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Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
ISBN-10: 0300088698 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300088694 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2003

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
ISBN-10: 0300088876 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300088878 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2002
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Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
Michelle Hartman
ISBN-13: 9780815633563 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780815652694
Syracuse University Press, 2014

Whatever Happened to Antara? And Other Stories
Walid Ikhlassi, translated by Asmahan Sallah and Chris Ellery
ISBN-10: 0292702825 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780292702820 (paper)
University of Texas Press, distributed for UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2004
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Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria
Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, contributions by Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim and Dylan T. Smith
ISBN-10: 0300111436 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300111439 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2006
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Experimental Arabic Novel: The Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant
Stefan G. Meyer
ISBN-10: 0791447332 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791447340 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791447338 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791447345 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2000

Eastern Arabic with MP3 Files
Frank A Rice, Majed F. Sa’id
ISBN-10: 1589010523 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781589010529 (paper)
Georgetown University Press, 2005
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Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
Jonathan H. Shannon
ISBN-10: 0819567981 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780819567987 (cloth)
Wesleyan University Press, 2006
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The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender, and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Code
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
ISBN-10: 0253341191 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0253215366 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780253341198 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253215369 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2002
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A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic: English-Arabic
Karl Stowasser
ISBN-10: 1589011058 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781589011052 (paper)
Georgetown University Press, 2004
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Folktales from Syria
Samir Tahhan, editor, translated and introduction by Andrea Rugh
ISBN-10: 0292706308 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780292706309 (paper)
University of Texas Press, distributed for UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2004
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Syria’s Regional & International Relations

Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order
Michael Barnett
ISBN-10: 0231109180 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0231109199 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780231109185 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231109192 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 1998
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Democratization and Women’s Grassroots Movements
Jill M. Bystydziensk, Joti Sekhon, editors
ISBN-10: 0253334454 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0253212790 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780253334459 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253212795 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1999
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The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991–96 and Beyond
Helena Cobban
ISBN-13: 9781878379986 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000

Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars
Anthony H. Cordesman
ISBN-13: 9780804759670 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2008

Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958
D. K. Fieldhouse
ISBN-10: 0199287376 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199287376 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2006
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The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology
Fred Halliday
ISBN-10: 0521597412 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521597418 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2005

Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict
Asher Kaufman
ISBN-13: 9781421411675 (cloth)
Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi
ISBN-10: 0807002348 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807002356 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807002346 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807002353 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2005
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Why Syria Goes to War: Thirty Years of Confrontation
Fred H. Lawson
ISBN-10: 0801423732 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801423734 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 1996

Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire
Flynt Leverett
ISBN-10: 0815752040 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780815752042 (cloth)
Brookings Institution Press, 2005
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Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking
Moshe Ma'oz
ISBN-10: 0198280181 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780198280187 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 1995
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Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition
Daniel Pipes
ISBN-10: 0195060229 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195060225 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 1992

Arabs at War, Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991
Kenneth M. Pollack author info
ISBN-10: 0803237332 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0803287836 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780803237339 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780803287839 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 1991
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The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations
Itamar Rabinovich
ISBN-10: 0691010234 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691010236 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400822652
Princeton University Press, 1999

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003
Itamar Rabinovich
ISBN-10: 0691119821 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691119823 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2004

Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East: A Documentary Reader
Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin
ISBN-10: 0195176596 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195176599 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2002
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Cooperating Rivals: The Riparian Politics of the Jordan River Basin
Jeffrey K. Sosland
ISBN-13: 9780791472019 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791472026 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2007
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Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalisms
Ghada Hashem Talhami
ISBN-10: 0813020638 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813020631 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2001

Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Shibley Telhami
ISBN-10: 080143940X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0801487455 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780801439407 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801487453 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2002
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The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really Are
Robin Wright, editor
ISBN-13: 9781601271341 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2012
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Syrian Occupation and Influence in Lebanon

The International Law of Occupation
Eyal Benvenisti
ISBN-10: 0691121303 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691121307 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2004
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The Middle East: The Changing Strategic Environment
F. Stephen Larrabee
ISBN-13: 9780833039507 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2006
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Syrian Intervention in Lebanon
Naomi Joy Weinberger
ISBN-10: 0195040104 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780195040104 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 1986

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Lebanon’s History

     General
     The Lebanese Civil War

Lebanon’s History: General

Militant Women of a Fragile Nation
Malek Abisaab
ISBN-13: 9780815632122 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2009
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The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920
Engin Akarli
ISBN-10: 0520080149 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520080140 (cloth)
University of California Press, 1993

The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade
Maria Eugenia Aubet, Translated by Mary Turton
ISBN-10: 0521791618 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521791618 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society
Oren Barak
ISBN-13: 9780791493458 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791493465 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791493632
State University of New York Press, 2009
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Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon
Guilain Denoeux
ISBN-13: 9780791415245 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1993
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Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
Carolin Emcke
ISBN-13: 9780691129037 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2007
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Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon,1945-1958
Irene Gendzier author info
ISBN-10: 0231140118 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780231140119 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2006
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Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
Gabriella Gonzalez, Lynn A. Karoly, Louay Constant, Hanine Salem, Charles A. Goldman
ISBN-13: 9780833045164 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008
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Hellenistic Phoenicia
John D. Grainger
ISBN-10: 0198147708 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780198147701 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 1992
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Fin de Siecle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital
Jens Hanssen
ISBN-10: 0199281637 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199281633 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2005
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Islamic Imperialism: A History
Efraim Karsh
ISBN-10: 0300106033 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300106039 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2006
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Beirut
Samir Kassir
ISBN-13: 9780520256682 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520271265 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520947177
University of California Press, 2010

Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920
Akram Fouad Khater
ISBN-10: 0520227409 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520227408 (paper)
University of California Press, 2001

Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?
Paul A. Kowert
ISBN-13: 9780791452493 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791452509 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2002
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The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
Ussama Makdisi
ISBN-10: 0520218469 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520218468 (paper)
University of California Press, 2000

The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic
Jonathan V. Marshall
ISBN-13: 9780804781312 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2012

Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Mikhayil Mishaqa, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston Jr.
ISBN-10: 0887067123 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780887067129 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 1988
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Democracy and Cultural Diversity
Michael O'Neill, Dennis Austin, editors
ISBN-10: 0199290008 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780199290000 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Ancient Lebanon: Monuments Past and Present
M. J. Strazzulla
ISBN-10: 8881621428 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9788881621422 (paper)
Getty Publications, 2006
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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788
Stefan Winter
ISBN-13: 9780521765848 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780511686368
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Lebanon’s History: The Lebanese Civil War

International Change and the Stability of Multiethnic States: Yugoslavia, Lebanon, and Crises of Governance
Badredine Arfi
ISBN-10: 0253344883 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253344885 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2005
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The New American Interventionism: Lessons From Successes and Failures; Essays from Political Science Quarterly
Demetrios James Caraley
ISBN-13: 9780231118491 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 1999
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Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon
Rola el-Husseini
ISBN-13: 9780815633044 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2012

War and Memory in Lebanon
Sune Haugbolle
ISBN-13: 9780521199025 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2010

Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962
Zachary Karabell author info
ISBN-10: 0807123072 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807123412 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807123072 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807123416 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 1999
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Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict
Samir Khalaf
ISBN-10: 0231124767 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0231124775 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780231124768 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231124775 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2002

The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976
Farid el Khazen
ISBN-10: 0674081056 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780674081055 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2000

Reproducing Sectarianism: Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon
Paul W. T. Kingston
ISBN-13: 9781438447117 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781438447124 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781438447131
State University of New York Press, 2013

Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution
Are Knudsen, Michael Kerr, editors
ISBN-13: 9780199342969 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2014

UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo: Operational and Legal Issues in Practice
Ray Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780521843058 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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The War for Lebanon, 1970–1985; Revised Edition
Itamar Rabinovich
ISBN-13: 9780801493133 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 1985
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A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
Kamal Salibi
ISBN-10: 0520071964 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520071964 (paper)
University of California Press, 1989
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Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City
Aseel Sawalha
ISBN-13: 9780292721876 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2010

One Family’s Response to Terrorism: A Daughter’s Memoir
Susan Kerr van de Ven, With a Foreword by Saad Eddin Ibrahim
ISBN-13: 9780815608738 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780815609544 (paper)
Syracuse University Press, 2008

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Hezbollah

The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology, and Political Program
Joseph Alagha
ISBN-10: 9053569103 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9789053569108 (paper)
Amsterdam University Press, 2006
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Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism
Daniel Byman author info
ISBN-10: 0521839734 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521839730 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2005

All Glory Is Fleeting: Insights from the Second Lebanon War
Russell W. Glenn
ISBN eBook: MG7081JFCOM
RAND Corporation, 2012
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In the Path of Hizbullah
A. Nizar Hamzeh
ISBN-10: 0815630530 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780815630531 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2004

Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance
Hala Jaber
ISBN-10: 0231108346 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231108348 (cloth)
Columbia University Press, 1997
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Hard Fighting: Israel in Lebanon and Gaza
David E. Johnson
ISBN-13: 9780833058508 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011
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Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah: Learning from Lebanon and Getting It Right in Gaza
Benjamin S. Lambeth
ISBN-13: 9780833051462 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011
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Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
Matthew Levitt
ISBN-13: 9781626160132 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781626160149
Georgetown University Press, 2013

Hezbollah: A Short History
Augustus Richard Norton
ISBN-13: 9780691141077 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2009

My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing
Christoph Reuter
ISBN-10: 0691117594 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0691126151 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691117591 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691126159 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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Lebanon’s Society & Culture

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Lebanon’s Society & Culture: Religious and Ethnic Groups

The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
Fouad Ajami
ISBN-13: 9780801494161 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 1986
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The Druze
Robert Brenton Betts
ISBN-10: 0300048106 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300048100 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1990

Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power
Jonathan Bloom, Sheila Blair
ISBN-10: 0300094221 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300094220 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2001

Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon
Melani Cammett
ISBN-13: 9780801452321 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801478932 (paper)
Cornell University Press, May 2014

The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon
John Chalcraft
ISBN-13: 9780804758253 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804758260 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2009
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Shi’ism and Social Protest
Juan R. I. Cole, Nikki R. Keddie
ISBN-10: 0300035535 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300035537 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1986
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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Lara Deeb
ISBN-10: 0691124205 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0691124213 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691124209 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691124216 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
Lara Deeb, Mona Harb
ISBN-13: 9780691153650 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691153667 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400848560
Princeton University Press, 2013

Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
Suzanne E. Joseph
ISBN-13: 9780813044613 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2013

Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon
Shaul Mishal, Ori Goldberg
ISBN-13: 9781107046382 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781139899345
Cambridge University Press, May 2014

Reaching For Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World
Yitzhak Nakash author info
ISBN-13: 9780691134789 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2007
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Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon
Bernard Rougier, Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
ISBN-13: 9780674030664 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 2007
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Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr
ISBN-13: 9780231144261 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231144278 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2008
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Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies
Maya Shatzmiller
ISBN-10: 0773528474 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0773528482 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780773528475 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780773528482 (paper)
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005

Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon
Lucia Volk
ISBN-13: 9780253355232 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253222305 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2010

In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi’ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon
Max Weiss
ISBN-13: 9780674052987 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2010

Lebanon’s Society & Culture: Art, Language, and Literature

Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon
Elmaz Abinader
ISBN-10: 0299157342 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780299157340 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
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Disciples of Passion
Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth,
ISBN-10: 0815608330 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780815608332 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2005
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The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250–1800
Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom
ISBN-10: 0300064659 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300064650 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1996

War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Miriam Cooke
ISBN-10: 0521341922 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521341929 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1988

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
Mahmoud Darwish, Ibrahim Muhawi, translator
ISBN-10: 0520087682 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520087682 (paper)
University of California Press, 1995
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Autumn Equinox
Jabbour Douaihy, translated by Nay Hannawi
ISBN-10: 1557287074 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781557287076 (paper)
University of Arkansas Press, 2001
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Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach, Student Book
Lutfi Hussein
ISBN-10: 0300056346 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300056341 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1993
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Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie
ISBN-13: 9780823234820 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780823234837 (paper)
Fordham University Press, 2011
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Lebanon: Poems of Love and War, Bilingual Edition
Nadia Tuéni, edited by Christophe Ippolito, translated by Paul B. Kelley and Sam Hazo,
ISBN-10: 0815630905 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0815608160 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780815630906 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780815608165 (paper)
Syracuse University Press, 2005
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Canceled Memories: A Novel
Nazik Saba Yared, Translated from the Arabic by Nadine Sinno
ISBN-13: 9780815609377 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2009
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