Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes - Softcover

 
9781906011277: Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1906011273 ISBN 13: 9781906011277
Verlag: Eland Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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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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