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Looking forward for the release of "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East"
I am looking forward for the release of my new forthcoming book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East, in December 2010. A Contribution to the so many efforts, struggles and sufferings of millions of men and women in the Greater Middle East to create the historic change needed for freedom to prevail..
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“Among the avant garde of the Christian ethnic claim were a few prominent, bold activists. In 1976, volumes entitled The History of the Maronites were published by a historical, Boutros Daou. In this voluminous research, documents revealing the pre-Arab identity of the Maronites and other Christians were analysed and the "missing" history of the community was re-established. The new documents gave a comprehensive description of the Lebanese Christians' struggle throughout the ages and established their non-Arab, Aramaic identity.”
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
“In June 1984, taking a Christian nationalist stand the Lebanese Forces' command rejected the Gemayel's overture to the Arabs and declared that: It's a historical heresy to impose a false Arab idenity on the Lebanese army into an Arabist army and transform Lebanon into a confrontation country against Isrsel. It's an educational heresy to develop the educational programs towards the Arab identity, which we consider as a blow to the cultural reality of the Christians. We will never drop any rights of the Christian people of Lebanon.”
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
“Neither the Muslims of Lebanon nor the other Arabs (particularly the Syrians) could accept a Christian Lebanon, even if restricted to a region of self-rule in a Lebanese federation. John Engel's concludes in his 1979 study of the Lebanese Christian Nationalism that: Most Lebanese Christians now agree on partition... but it is undesirable because it is tantamount to Christian isolationaism and inexpedient because no major power seems ready to encourage it. Yet there remains the Maronite Christians' adamant conviction that they must never again be vulnerable to Muslim influence. This view, in its most acceptable guise, calls for a major decentralisation of government (à la Swiss cantons) and a larger degree of local autonomy. From the Maronite point of view confessional democracy cannot be revived so long as Lebanese Muslims reject the validity of a pluralistic social arrangement which respects and gives political expression to primordial social arrangementwhich respects and gives political expression to primordial ethnic and communal sentiments.”
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
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