Fawwaz traboulsi biography of williams

  • Traboulsi is not only a historian.
  • An updated history of modern Lebanon is long overdue as the last such attempt dates from the mid-1960s.
  • Born in 1941 in Beirut Studied Political Science and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut and History at Université de Paris VIII.

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    A History of Modern Lebanon, By: Fawwaz Trabulsi

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    Lebanon's second republic: prospects for the twenty-first century

    Kail Ellis

    2002

    titled "Lebanon in the Twenty-first Century." Jointly sponsored by the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of Villanova University and the Lebanese American University, the seminar featured presentations and discussions by noted national and international scholars, diplomats, and others interested in Lebanon. Works on contemporary Lebanon are hardly an anomaly. Since the beginning of Lebanon's civil war in 1975, Lebanon's sectarian politics and its relationships with the Palestinians and its neighbors, Israel and Syria, have been the subject of many outstanding studies. With the ankomst of peace in the 1990s, numerous excellent books have analyzed Lebanon's prospects for reconciliation and reconstruction. Lebanon's contemporary history has been so thoroughly explored that recent scholarship has returned to

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    Yes. Technically Lebanon should be bankrupt but you don't bankrupt it because you can't get anything in return. You can't sell islands like Greece. (laughter) So yes, this explains a dominant sector of the economy -  the financial sector.

    And we've seen the cooperation of the financial sector with the real estate development sector when Rafik Hariri came to the political scene in the 90's with the Solidere project. A similar situation can be found in south Beirut where Hezbollah is partnered with the Al Inmaa building company, kind of in line with you material view of Lebanon. One can see the same lines of corruption or maybe Wasta all over Lebanon.

    Well, we are under the domination of the oligarchy of importers, real estate contractors and banks. They dominate the economy, they dominate the social life and they dominate politics. Now is that called Wasta? It is a clear form of capitalist exploitation. The old concepts of clientelism pe

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    Fawwaz N. Traboulsi, Dr.

    Arbeitsvorhaben

    Ökonomische und politische Macht im Libanon

    The relationship between economic power and political power in Lebanon has been obscured by a dominant emphasis on the "political", particularly by a reductionist definition of the Lebanese as being, primarily if not exclusively, members of politicized religious communities (sects). My research aims at reintroducing the dialectics between economics and politics in reading Lebanon's history and society. How does a business class intervene in politics in an extroverted economy with a long tradition of laissez-faire? To what extent has military and political power been instrumental in the constitution, defense, and perpetuation of economic interests? These are the two guiding questions in my research.
    1. Tracing the historical development of the commercial-financial bourgeoisie from independence to the wars of 1975-90 would be the occasion to test the "non-interventionist&qu