The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account. Yet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah.

The author underlines what he considers to be the "lessons of Lebanon" for US foreign policy in the greater Middle East and in the world at large.

Nearly 3,000 years ago, the area that is now Lebanon was ruled by the powerful Phoenicians.

This is one of the few books on modern Middle Eastern history to take up issues of gender, migration, and economic change.

This book will serve as a guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict-expert and general reader alike-and for those, as well, who would work to bring peace to that tormented land.

Joseph Bayeh argues that it is this international dimension which holds the key to an in-depth understanding of the country.

In this book, Idir Ouahes provides an in-depth analysis of the shifts in discourses, attitudes and activities unfolding in French and locally-organised institutions such as schools, museums and newspapers, revealing how local resistance put ...

This is the first comprehensive account of the progression of the Second Lebanese War, from the border abduction of an Israeli soldier on the morning of July 12, 2006, through the hasty decision for an aggressive response; the fateful ...

A subtle and reflective essay on whether the Lebanese will ever transcend their internal divisions and external challenges