Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon's Postwar Challenge

by Carole H. Dagher

"Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message." These words of Pope John Paul II illustrate Lebanon's post-war endeavor to preserve its age-old Christian-Muslim coexistence and power-sharing formula and to invalidate Samuel Huntington's assumption of a "Clash of Civilizations." Lebanon's current challenge is also the challenge of a whole region, the Middle East, where the fate of minorities, including Eastern Christians, reveals the prospects of democracy, pluralism, and political participation.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published March 14, 2000