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LEBANON-Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground
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LEBANON Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground, by Samir Khalaf. London: Saqi Books, 2012. 296 pages. $27.95 paper.
Reviewed by Kail C. Ellis
In the 1990s, after 16 years of war and economic hardship, a profound sense of relief and guarded optimism emerged in Lebanon. The slogan al-balad macheh (the country is moving) summed up the collective desire to rebuild the country and reestablish Beirut as the financial and cultural capital of the Middle East. A new constitutional arrangement, the Tai'f Agreement, promoted national reconciliation; state institutions were modernized; Beirut's city center was rebuilt; and the Lebanese economy was rescued by businesses both …
