Lebanon and al-Taif: A Historical Intersection and a Discontinued Course

The Center for Arab Unity Studies released the second edition of the book Lebanon and al-Taif: A Historical Intersection and a Discontinued Course, by Dr. Aref Al-Abed.

This book follows the roots of the crises that afflicted Lebanon and the facts that accompanied them since it was under the Ottoman Sultanate, and the establishment of the Lebanese system according to sectarian distribution, all the way to the establishment of modern Lebanon and the experience of the National Pact in the first republic and the setbacks it experienced that paved the way for reaching the Taif settlement. ‎

The book presents the local, regional and international political conditions that accompanied the preparation and implementation of the Taif agreement, as well as the documents, projects and reform papers that paved the way for reaching it, even those unannounced documents, including the background paper prepared by American diplomat April Glaspie and accompanied the maturation of Western international ideas and atmosphere to reach this settlement (Taif).

The book contains six chapters divided into three sections. It also contains ten official documents that include agreements, treaties and draft projects closely related to the subject of the book, in addition to the introduction, conclusion, references and index.