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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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“Emile Edde, a lawyer and later the president of the Lebanese Republic; Suleiman Kenaan, a member of the administrative council; and many other Lebanese nationalists pleaded for the establishment of a homogeneous Christian state. Even within the Maronite Church there were sympathisers with this point of view. Numerous lower-level clergy and many spiritual leaders warned that the annexation of territories in which Muslim populations consituted a sharp majority (such as Tripoli, Baalbek, Nabatiah, and others) could bring trouble. Bishop Awad, a native of Hassrun in the Maronite North, feared that the Maronites might become a minority in Greater Lebanon.”
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
“Etienne Sacre, defined the roots and identity of Lebanon as follows:
"The Lebanese Nation has the legacy of the Phoenician civilization. Lebanon, by its geography, its culture, and its essence is an identity in itself. He [Lebanon] can not be integrated, digested, or divided. The Lebanese Nation can not be identified by Aeab, Syrian, or any other attribute.”
― Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance
"The Lebanese Nation has the legacy of the Phoenician civilization. Lebanon, by its geography, its culture, and its essence is an identity in itself. He [Lebanon] can not be integrated, digested, or divided. The Lebanese Nation can not be identified by Aeab, Syrian, or any other attribute.”
― 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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