GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Returning to Beirut

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Charles Glass
Board of Contributors

Mar 31, 2017 | 09:00 GMT

Since 1972, Lebanon has endured decades of Israeli invasion, Syrian occupation, government collapse and civil war.

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Little has changed in Lebanon over the past four decades. Lebanon is a country of minorities who for the most part coexist but whose chieftains jockeyed for power and relied on arms to achieve their goals. But the country learned that armed conflict brings not utopia but pandemonium....

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