Historical books from Lebanon
Recommended historical books (2)
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If you are into historical here are some historical books from Lebanon for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
1.
Beirut by Samir Kassir EN
Description:
Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
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House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid EN
Description:
Culture and institutions.