This book offers a broad synthesis of modern Lebanese history from the emirate to the Taif Agreement without treating sectarianism as destiny or separating politics from its social economy. Fawwaz Traboulsi links state formation to countryside and city, labor and migration, and regional intervention, rewriting the national story from below and from within its contradictions. It has become a standard reference for anyone seeking to understand modern Lebanon beyond the myth of “exceptionalism” and beyond accounts of the civil war as an eruption of timeless communal hatred.
A History of Modern Lebanon (Sixth Arabic Printing)
تاريخ لبنان الحديث: من الإمارة إلى اتفاق الطائف (الطبعة العربية السادسة)
Notes
Sixth Arabic edition (2023). Publisher: Riyad El-Rayyes Books, Beirut. 472 pages. ISBN 9789953213422 (shared with all Arabic editions). Listed as طبعة: 6 in bookseller records. Revision status not independently confirmed — may be a reprint of an earlier revised edition. See notes on the 1st Arabic edition for full publication history.