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                  [16] In her book, Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon, Lucia Volk explains why several Arab states have failed to establish “strong” nations.  She argues that many Arabs have remained too attached to their families or “clans,” which many refer to as tribal or “sectarian.”  The author posits that such dedication to one’s family gets in the way of one’s utmost dedication to their country and sense of national pride.  Lucia Volk, Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon, (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010), 2.

Figure 1, Together we liberate, together we build, poster for the 1992 Parliamentary Elections. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 5: 2012, 172.

Map 1, French Mandated State of Greater Lebanon with French administrative units in Blue, 1924, Stanford Journal of Archaeology, . Accessed 30 May, 2014.

Chapter One

Posters of the Lebanese Civil War, An Overview (1975-1990)

To Beirut …

From the Soul of her people she makes wine,

From their sweat, she makes bread and jasmine.

So how did it come to taste of smoke and fire?

                                                                        The Lebanese Songwriter, Fayrouz[1]

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Executed Today

On this date in 1949, Lebanese writer and political leader Antoun Saadeh was shot following a failed coup by his Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

Born to a globetrotting journalist, the young polyglot Saadeh was living abroad in Brazil when his native Lebanon fell from the collapsing Ottoman Empire into French hands.

He returned in 1930 to Lebanon an irredentist on the make and churned out a prodigious literary output: fiction, newspaper stories, political pamphlets.

It was his vision for a “Greater Syria” that would define the man’s legacy, and cause his death. In 1932 he secretly founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party to advocate for a vast Syrian state encompassing what now comprise Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine. At its most ambitious this prospective state dreamt itself inscribed upon the whole Fertile Crescent from the Tauras Mountains to the Persian Gulf.

The SSNP still exists in Syria and Lebanon to this day, but it was a big cheese in the French Mandate by the late 1930s — when the imminent end of colonialism put the future shape of the entire region into question. Saadeh, harried by French authorities who had clapped him in prison a couple of times, emigrated to Argentina and carried on the struggl