Warlords and Merchants: The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment

click here for more details, find new or used items	Kamal Dib Our price £33.25 (£35.00) New from £28.16 Used from £33.24 Pages: 333 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0863722970 Pub: Ithaca Press Pub date: 1999-01-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 307911

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The best honest book on Lebanon (0/0 people found this helpful)

I was looking for the most recent account of the events of Lebanon with a socio-economic background and a historical overview. The book by Dr Kamal Dib was the answer for my search. It is 350 pages long with statistical annexes and an index of keywords. It covers a rarely visited angle of Lebanese politics and economics: the families and warlords who rule the country and prevent attempts to modernize the state and reflect the wishes of the highly educated population. Lebanon has seen it all: wars, assissinations, corruption, political turmoil, and massacres. yet its reslilience is demonstrated in the miracle rise of Beirut from the ashes in 1990 and the subsequent reconstruction and development. Dib's book is never boring, filled with anecdotes yet academic and factual. I would recommend it to university students, academics, business people and policy makers in government and in think-tanks.

If you want to know about Lebanon this is the book. --.

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