This page contains a bibliography of texts about Lebanon in European languages. Bold-faced entries are deemed to be especially valuable contributions or good starting-points in the literature, at least by the readership of this blog.

The focus is primarily political and historical. Over time, I intend to add a section of memoirs, works of fiction, and films. In the meantime, feel free to make additional suggestions in the comment section below.

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AbuKhalil, As`ad. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Ajami, Fouad. The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Alagha, Joseph. The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology, and Political Program. Leiden: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Ang, Swee Chai. From Beirut to Jerusalem. London: Grafton, 1989.

Barak, Oren. The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

Blanford, Nicholas. Killing Mr. Lebanon. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Chaitani, Youssef. Post-colonial Syria and Lebanon: The Decline of Arab Nationalism and the Triumph of the State. New York: I.B. Taurus, 2007.

Chehabi, H.E., ed. Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years. London: The Centre for Lebanese Studies, 2006.

Corm, Georges. Le Liban Contemporain: Histoire et Société. Paris: La Découverte, 2003.

Deeb, Lara. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi`i Lebanon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Dib, Kamal. Warlords and Merchants: The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment. Reading, England: Ithica Press, 2004.

El-Khazin, Farid. Breakdown of the State in Lebanon: 1967-1976. Translated by Shukri Rihyyim. Beirut: Dar al-Nahar, 2002.

Fawaz, Leila. An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Fisk, Robert. Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Gilmour, David. Lebanon, the Fractured Country. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

Gilsenan, Michael. Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in Arab Society. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996.

Hamzeh, Ahmad Nizar. In the Path of Hizbullah. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004.

Harik, Judith Palmer. Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004.

Harris, William. The New Face of Lebanon: History’s Revenge. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006.

Hourani, Albert and Nadim Shehadi. eds. The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration. London: I.B. Tauris, 1992.

Hovsepian, Nubar. The War on Lebanon: A Reader. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008.

Institut français du Proche-Orient. Atlas du Liban: Territoires et Société. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2007.

Johnson, Michael. All Honourable Men: The Social Origins of War in Lebanon. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Kassir, Samir. Histoire de Beyrouth. Paris: Fayard, 2003.

Kassir, Samir. La Guerre du Liban: De la Dissension Nationale au Conflit Régional, 1975-1982. Paris: Karthala, 1994.

Kaufman, Asher. Reviving Phoenicia: In Search of Identity in Lebanon. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Khalaf, Samir. Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Leeuwen, Richard Van. Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khazin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736-1840. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.

Maasri, Zeina. Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009.

Makdisi, Usams. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Naff, Alixa. Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.

Noe, Nicholas, ed. Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah. Translated by Ellen Khouri. London: Verso, 2007.

Norton, Augustus R. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Norton, Augustus Richard. Amal and the Shi`a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987.

O’Ballance, Edgar. Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Phares, Walid. Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner, 1995.

Picard, Elizabeth. Lebanon, A Shattered Country: Myths and Realities of the Wars in Lebanon. New York: Holmes & Meier, 2002.

Qassem, Naim. Hizbullah: The Story from Within. Translated by Dalia Khalil. London: Saqi, 2005.

Rabbath, Edmond. La Formation Historique du Liban Politique et Constitutionnel: Essai de Synthèse. Beirut: Université Libanaise, 1986.

Rabinovich, Itamar. The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Ranstorp, Magnus. Hizb’allah in Lebanon: The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Rougier, Bernard. Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.

Saleh, Nabil. The Qadi and the Fortune Teller. London: Quartet Books, 1996. Reprint, Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2008.

Salibi, Kamal. A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. London: I.B. Tauris, 1988.

Salibi, Kamal. Cross Roads to Civil War: Lebanon, 1958-1976. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1976.

Salibi, Kamal. The Modern History of Lebanon. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1977.

Sarkis, Jean. Histoire de la Guerre du Liban. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993.

Sayigh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies. London: Zed Books, 1994.

Schiff, Ze’ev and Ehud Ya’ari. Israel’s Lebanon War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Shehadi, Nadim and Dana H. Mills. Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus. London: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1988.

Traboulsi, Fawwaz. A History of Modern Lebanon. London: Pluto Press, 2007.

Zachs, Fruma. The Making of Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Zamir, Meir. Lebanon’s Quest: The Road to Statehood, 1926-1939. London: I.B. Tauris, 1997.

Zamir, Meir. The Formation of Modern Lebanon. London: Croom Helm, 1985.

Zurayk, Rami. From `Akkar to `Amel, Lebanon ‘ s Slow Food Trail: Places, Products and Producers from Lebanon. Beirut: Dots Printing Press, 2008.