Book Reviews
A close look at the books that are shaping ideas making waves.
on :
Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
By Kamal DibPublished by Dar al Nahar
Supported with documents and a well-scrutinized body of literature, the book does not only trace the Lebanese history back to the Pre-Great Lebanon Era, as its cover title may suggest, but rather to the nineteenth century civil war. The scientific spirit and neutrality is unmistakably evident throughout the book. However, it goes beyond pure theory to explore particular moments in Lebanese history within a broader context.
The author makes an all-out re...
Read more »
on :
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
By Michael Cook, 2009
The leading orientalist, Michael Cook was greatly influenced by Imam Abou Hamid Al-Ghazali's book The Revival of Religious Sciences, in which he said that the injunction of good deeds and the admonition against evil deeds represents the true essence of Islam. Encouraged by the Imam's insights, Cook set out to investigate the whole matter as it is encountered in the written theological literature of Islam.
Being a professor at the Near East Studies Department of Princ...
Read more »
on :
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
Dr. Abdullah Saleh Al-Washemi, 2009Published by the Arab Cultural Center The writer relies on an extensive number of documents and articles that have not been published before i...
Read more »
on :
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
Michael Aoun, the former commander of the Lebanese Army, who served as an interim prime minister of Lebanon for two years (September 1988 – October 1990), led the Change and Ref...
Read more »
on :
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
By Shanatal George Dagher 2009 Published by Dar Annahar The book explores the performance of Lebanese armed forces in the battle and traces the stages of operations and milit...
Read more »
on :
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
By Peter Rodman Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Affairs in the Bush Jr. administration has been preoccupied with the Presidential decisio...
Read more »
Follow Us!