Conflict on Mount Lebanon

Makram Rabah is a lecturer in the Department of History at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of A Campus at War: Student Politics at the American University of Beirut, 1967-1975 (Nelson Publications, 2009).

• IntroductionStudying the Druze–Maronite Conflict through the Prism of Collective Memory and Oral HistoryThe Druze and the Maronites: The Perception of the OtherThe Communal Centres of Power and Elements of CollectivenessThe Road to ConflictThe Point of no ReturnThe War of Others vs. Druze Maronite Collective AnimosityHistory Meets the BattlefieldPost-Conflict Rehashing and Preserving of Collective MemoryConclusionAppendix: Table of InterviewsBibliography

This is an original and revealing look at the people and events surrounding the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Rabah has collected a staggering amount of evidence to lay bare the connections between the Druze and Maronites, and has produced unrivaled character studies of the two leading figures, Bashir Gemeyal and Walid Junblat, their fathers, families, and followers. Readers will thank Rabah for conducting hundreds of interviews with individuals who experienced the period and its upheavals first hand.