Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries - if it remains a country at all. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? The Lebanese historian Kamal S. Salibi examines, in the light of modern scholarship, the historical myths on which his country's warring communities ha…
This book attempts to reduce the history of modern Jordan into a readable narrative, tracing the stages of the country's political and demographic development under the Hashemite monarchy, and explaining the internal, regional and international circumstances and constraints whitin which the Jordanian state has functioned since it was first established.