A native of South Lebanon and leftist intellectual in the pre-war period, Ahmad Beydoun holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne and taught sociology at the Lebanese University. He has authored a dozen remarkable books on Lebanese historiography, its political system, its civil war and the quest for a Lebanese national identity. He is among the most respected historians and sociologists in his country.

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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