Hyper-Retaliation
Charles Glass: The Levant, 8 March 2012
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
by Philip Mansel.
John Murray, 480 pp., £10.99, September 2011,978 0 7195 6708 7 Show More
by Philip Mansel.
John Murray, 480 pp., £10.99, September 2011,
Beirut
by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise.
California, 656 pp., £19.95, December 2011,978 0 520 27126 5 Show More
by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise.
California, 656 pp., £19.95, December 2011,
“... of weapons for any group that called itself an army of liberation. In his monumental study, Samir Kassir charts the city’s extended death throes: The war began as a battle of neighbourhood against neighbourhood, then of city against city, and then spread throughout the country under the influence of a viral dynamic of proximity. Confessional ... ”