Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906011273 ISBN 13: 9781906011277

Verlag: Eland Publishing, 2010

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Lebanon has fallen prey to the rapacious appetites of most of the world's great powers - France, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Assyria, Alexander the Great, the Arabs, Crusaders, Persians, Mamlukes and Ottoman Turks. Vestiges of all these transient civilisations are still there: Phoenician tombs and Roman temples, Gothic castles, venerable mosques and churches all jostling for attention. The Lebanese themselves bear genetic witness to this history: dozens of ethnic and religious groups coexist uneasily, hemmed in between mountains and sea, stubbornly defending their rites and traditions in a mosaic- like society where politics informs religion and vice versa. Violence, beauty, poetry, struggle, humour, an occasional example of inspiring inter-cultural harmony - and bigotry - all are reflected through these writers' eyes.

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Ted Gorton came early to Oriental studies, spending formative years in Turkey where his father was the US military attche, and studying at the American University or Beirut in the 1960's. He later took a doctorate in Arabic Studies from Oxford and lectured at St.Andrews University, from where he was lured wawy to Arabia, spending 25 years in the oil business before returning to his first love, Arabic poetry. Series.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Eland Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1906011273
• ISBN 13: 9781906011277
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
• Herausgeber: Gorton T. J., Féghali Gorton A.
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