Lebanon fell to the French after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the final throes of the First World War. PLURALISTIC LEBANON BECOMES THE ECONOMIC POWERHOUSELebanon, in contrast to the rest of the Arab world took to modernization and western education very early. With peace amongst its religions and literacy levels at 73.5% – the highest in the developing world – Lebanon made a neat head start. Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: a History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict, Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Summer, 200320. Love’s Lebanon lost – Beirut, Lebanon before the warNew Statesman, May 30, 1997 by Charles Glass.

Source: Economic Times August 09, 2020 13:18 UTC