Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Shining a Light
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard examines the Anti-American, Anti-Israeli, Christian-Islamist alliance in Lebanon, and its potential for redefining national interests in the Middle East. Making sense of the multiplicity of authentic constituencies that comprise Lebanon's political landscape, Dot-Pouillard presents a world of autonomies negotiating their own future, a reality completely outside the experience of most Israelis and Americans. Historically a religiously tolerant region, the indigenous peoples on the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean are shining a light on the religious bigotry imposed on the Middle East by European and American colonialism.
