Kamar khalaf biography of michael
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Conflict on Mount Lebanon: Collective Memory and the War of the Mountain
The Druze and Maronites, the founding communities of modern Lebanon, have clashed on more than one occasion over the past two centuries earning them the reputation of being primordial enemies. This study is an attempt to gauge the impact that collective memory had on determining the course and the naturlig eller utan tillsats of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon in what came to be called the War of the Mountains in 1982. This dissertation will attempt to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the events of the 1982 war through the framework of collective remembrance. In doing so, the thesis hopes to achieve better understanding of the conflict as well as the consequences it had on the two communities and beyond, most importantly the post-war reconciliation process; which maybe applicable to other communal conflicts in the region.
This dissertation extensively utilizes oral history, in some of its parts,
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History
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Lebanese Shia Muslims
Lebanese adherents of Shia Islam
"Mutawālī" redirects here. Not to be confused with mutawallī.
Ethnic group
Lebanese Shiite Muslims (Arabic: المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (Arabic: متاولة, plural of متوالmutawālin;[2] pronounced as متواليmetouéle in Lebanese Arabic[3]), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite and Druze sects. The vast majority of Shiite Muslims in Lebanon adhere to Twelver Shi'ism.[4][5][6]
Today, Shiite Muslims constitute around 32%[1] of the Lebanese population. Under the terms of an unwritten agreement known as the National Pact between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, Shiites are the only sect eligible for the post of Speaker of Parliament.[7][8][9][10]
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