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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The South Lebanon Army (SLA), also "South Lebanese Army," (Arabic: ??? ????? ????????; transliterated: Jaysh Lubn?n al-Jan?bi. Hebrew: ??? ???? ?????, ??"??; transliterated: Tzvá Dróm Levanón, Tzadál) was a Lebanese militia during the Lebanese Civil War. After 1979, the militia operated in southern Lebanon under the authority of Saad Haddad's Government of Free Lebanon. It was supported by Israel during the 1982?2000 South Lebanon conflict to fight against both the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hezbollah. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The family in Lebanon, as elsewhere in the Middle East region, assigns different roles to family members on the basis of gender. The superior status of men in society and within the narrow confines of the nuclear family transcends the barriers of sect or ethnicity. Lebanese family structure is patriarchal. The centrality of the father figure stems from the role of the family as an economic unit, in which the father is the property owner and producer on whom the rest of the family depend. This notion prevails even in rural regions of Lebanon where women participate in peasant work. ... Read more

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Antisemitism around the world. Antisemitism in Japan, Antisemitism in the United States, History of the Jews in Lebanon, History of the Jews in Syria, Libyan Jews, History of the Jews in South Africa, Jewish exodus from Arab lands, Antisemitism in Canada ... Read more

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Chapters: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Fort Ancient (Lebanon, Ohio), New Indian Ridge Museum, Fort Recovery, Sunwatch Indian Village, Shawnee Woodland Native American Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park -From about 200 BCE to CE 500, the Ohio River Valley was a central area of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell (taken from an early farmer who owned the land where one of the mound complexes was located) culture is applied to a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American peoples who inhabited a large portion of eastern North America. The culture is characterized by its construction of enclosures made of earthen walls, often built in geometric patterns, and mounds of various shapes. Visible remnants of Hopewell culture are concentrated in the Scioto River valley near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. The most striking Hopewell sites contain earthworks in the form of squares, circles, and other geometric shapes. Many of these sites were built to a monumental scale, with earthen walls up to 12 feet (3.7 m) high outlining geometric figures more than 1,000 feet (300 m) across. Conical and loaf-shaped earthen mounds up to 30 feet (9.1 m) high are often found in association with the geometric earthworks. The people who built them had a detailed knowledge of the local soils, and they combined different types to provide the most stability to the works. It required the organized labor of thousands of manhours, as people carried the earth in handwoven baskets. A raven effigy pipe unearthed at the Mound City Group site Another view of the Mound City Site.Mound City, located on Ohio Highway 104 approximately four miles north of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2345779 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! National Broadcasting Network known as NBN is the official television of the Lebanese Amal Movement. The National Broadcasting Network s.a.l. NBN, is a Lebanese private company by shares, founded in 1996. In September 2000, NBN launched its satellite channel via Arab Sat and Nile Sat to cover the Arab World, Africa and Europe. Since 2004, NBN is available in the USA through Reach Media Inc. NBN broadcasts the same channel simultaneously locally in Lebanon and via satellite. For a period of time, NBN once changed their corporate name to CityTV in 2007 before returning to their former name by popular demand, although they did later change the design of their corporate identity anyway. ... Read more

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Cities of the World represents a compilation of government reports and original research on the social, cultural, political, and industrial aspects of the nations and cities of the world. VOLUME 3: EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN MIDDLE EAST. Most of the country profiles included here are based on official personnel briefings issued as Post Reports by the U.S. Department of State. The Post Reports are designed to acquaint embassy personnel with life in the host country. Consequently, the reports concentrate on cities in which the U.S. Government has embassies or consulates. To increase coverage of other important cities, the editors have added information on a large number of cities-31 of which are new to this edition-not reported on by the Department of State. ... Read more

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The Levant was a critical area in the development of humankindand knowledge of its prehistory and geoarchaeology are essential forunderstanding how our ancestors evolved biologically and culturally.This collection brings together 22 previously published articles onthe Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the region in aconvenient sourcebook that will be useful to students andprofessionals searching for articles dealing with a variety of topicsand time periods. ... Read more

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Through performance, video, sculpture and installation Mona Hatoum immerses her audience in emotional and psychic states - as they take a journey through all the orifices of her body; watch her "drowning" in mud in a glass box; or walk down a long tunnel towards a light which literally will burn them. Whilst her video work is often visceral and emotive, her sculptures and environments are ultra cool and minimal in their aesthetic. They often mimic domestic or institutional furniture yet their designs and material have a threatening edge. This text argues that Hatoum's works can be seen as powerful evocations of statelessness, anxiety, denial and otherness. The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration. ... Read more

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Smart and good-looking
This is a good introduction to the art of Mona Hatoum. The book has several well written texts, an interesting interview, and very good photos. Of course, the kind of work Hatoum makes does not lend itself easily tophotography, and inevitably some of the impact is lost (but then again,this could be said for any book on art...). Oh, and it is a verygood-looking book.

Pity to close hatoum'work on a book
The big art work of Mona Hatoum really don't are able to be close between to cover. Like her performance, her installation and sculpture are ugly and mute in a static and not-so-well-printed photografy book. Good is theintro, and the index of exibitions ... Read more

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Lebanese civil war representation through its cinema eyes
A very well done dissertation (it actually seemed more than a University thesis than a book to me) on the movies made during and after the civil war on themes inspired by these "events".

Lebanese cinema is more represented as a psychoanalytic essay for its people to deal with the traumas caused by this 15 year war; as the only effort in this country for them to deal with the ghosts of their past; analysing at the same time the main themes of such a cinema flow such as exile, masculinity and even more women's representation either as mothers, fighters or victims during these years.

Recommended not only to the ones interested in contemporary Lebanese history and cinema but as well to everyone interested in the research on world and more specifically middle-eastern ones.
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