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What Makes Lebanon a Distinctive Country?

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Lebanon

Part of the book series: The Middle East in Focus ((MEF))

Abstract

In December 1948, at one of the earliest sessions of the United Nations, Lebanon’s representative, Ambassador Charles Malik, summed up his country’s self-image and unique nature:

The history of my country for centuries is precisely that of a small country struggling against all odds for the maintenance and strengthening of real freedom of thought and conscience. Innumerable persecuted minorities have found, throughout the ages, a most understanding haven in my country, so that the very basis of our existence is complete respect of differences of opinion and belief.1

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  1. Charles Malik, The Challenge of Human Rights (Oxford: Charles Malik Foundation, 2000), p. 16.

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  2. Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 287.

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  3. Philip Hitti, Lebanon in History (London: Macmillan, 1957), p. 5.

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  4. Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Lebanon (Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1965), p. 15.

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  5. Edmond Rabath. La formation historique du liban (Beirut: Impr. Catholique, 1986), p. 183.

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  6. Leila Fawaz Tarazi, An Occasion for War (London: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1994), p. 15.

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  7. Asher Kauffman, Phoenicianism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004), p. 197.

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  8. Kais Ferro, Inventing Lebanon (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), p. 31.

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  1. Eli Fawaz
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  1. Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Israel

    Barry Rubin (Director) (Director)

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Fawaz, E. (2009). What Makes Lebanon a Distinctive Country?. In: Rubin, B. (eds) Lebanon. The Middle East in Focus. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622432_3

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