Lebanon: A Brief Cultural Overview Lebanon’s rich history has been shaped by many cultural traditions‚ including Phoenician‚ Greek‚ Roman‚ Islamic‚ Crusader‚ Ottoman Turkish‚ French‚ and recently American. The resulting culture is distinctively Lebanese‚ a combination of East and West‚ past and present. Music Folk music and dancing have a long tradition and are very popular. The national dance‚ the dabke‚ is an energetic folk dance that has influenced many European and American folk dances
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Lebanon: Reconstructing Tourism By Simon Peter Massabni October 13‚ 2014 Lebanon; Reconstructing Tourism Since the dawn of time‚ Lebanon has been an expression attributed to a small land located in the center of the world‚ laying side by side with the Mediterranean Sea and featuring four clearly distinct seasons. In the winter‚ visitors from all around the world fly over to enjoy the snowy mountains of Faraya. In the Autumn‚ villages become crowded with enthusiasts who love to enjoy the
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attack‚ bombing the Lebanese airport and parts of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates by launching hundreds of rockets and missles‚ believed to have been supplied by Syria and Iran into Israel. · On August 14‚ 2006‚ United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 goes into effect. · UNSCR 1701 increased UNIFIL numbers in southern lebanon from 1‚990 troops in June 2006 to 11‚512 troops in January 2007 Current Issues in U.S.-Lebanon Relations. 1. Hezbollah · Syrian and Iranian backing
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ISRAEL – LEBANON WAR 2006 1st DRAFT 1. Ever since the inception of Israel as a Jew state in the midst of Arab land in 1948‚ the world has observed Middle East to be the most turbulent and volatile region. Lebanon being immediate neighbor has been amongst the most affect countries. Israel and Lebanon have never signed a peace accord and remained in a state of war since the decision of Lebanese Muslims to align with Arab nationalism against the wishes of their Christian counterparts during 1948
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Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah Conflict in Lebanon Introduction The Republic of Lebanon is a small Middle Eastern nation on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It became an independent republic in 1943‚ but its history is thousands of years older. Historians have found evidence that people lived in the region in pre-historic times. Lebanon’s earliest known inhabitants‚ the Canaanites‚ settled the land in about 3000 B.C. The Canaanites were followed by the Phoenicians‚ who moved into the region
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a.o. 2008: 4). The history of statehood in the Middle East and its establishment by colonial powers has ensured that this remains a fragile and unstable region (Zweiri a.o. 2008: 4). After the collapse of the Ottoman empire the state structure of Lebanon‚ for example‚ was instituted to ensure the protection and local hegemony of the Christian Maronites‚ who were backed by the French in the 1930s and 1940s (Zweiri a.o. 2008: 4). The consequences of this structuring can still be felt today (Zweiri a
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beauty. Most of people in Arab world treading between Syria and Lebanon by which country better to visit‚ because they are a great and beautiful countries There are many similarities between them. Some of the similarities between the two countries are the weather‚ number of religions and currency while the three main differences are area and population‚ number of governorates and tourism. The similarities between Syria and Lebanon are weather‚ number of religions and currency. About the first
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LEBANON‚ 1958 Unrest in the Middle East This paper was written with the intent of the reader gaining a further knowledge of the role the United States intervention played in stabilizing Lebanon in 1958‚ when the country was on the brink of civil war. The paper briefly gives a summary on the state of Lebanon‚ how a civil war was nearly imminent‚ and why the United States got involved. The U.S. military had no idea what they would encounter in country but were prepared
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1982 Lebanon War After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war‚ Lebanon became home to more than 110‚000 Palestinian refugees‚ after their settlements in Palestine and Israel had been depopulated as a result of the war. The large influx of Palestinians from Jordan after "Black September" caused an additional demographic imbalance within Lebanon. By 1975‚ the refugees numbered more than 300‚000 and the PLO in effect created an unofficial state-within-a-state‚ particularly in Southern Lebanon. These rapid demographic
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Eliza Chetlin Political Geography of the Middle East April 13‚ 2011 The 2006 Lebanon War The Lebanon War of 2006 began on July 12th‚ when Hezbollah launched a rocket attack on Israeli military positions stationed near the border between Lebanon and Israel. In the minutes during the ensuing chaos‚ Hezbollah militants crossed the border into Israel‚ and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers who they intended to use as collateral in a prisoner exchange with Israel. The war lasted until August 13‚
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