Lebanon A House Divided [Paperback]

With the Wests economic and security interests increasingly at stake in the Middle East, it is impossible to ignore Lebanona nation in all ways divided and tormented by the interplay between the West and the Arab world. Sandra Mackey delineates the multifarious culture that is Lebanon; carefully stripping away the complex stigmas of Lebanese politics, she brings each component into focus, priming readers on the conflicts between Sunni and Shia, Maronites and Druze, Christian and Muslim, Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Lebanon and Palestine, and Syria and Lebanon.Draws a lucid map of an apparently impossible complexity.With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanons past, present, and future.