Charbel Barakat's new book "Madameek Courses" is now
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About the book/This is an English translation of a book which was written
in Arabic and published in Lebanon in 1999. It is about the struggles,
sufferings and hopes of the people of South Lebanon during the period 1976
to 1986. The author outlines the troubles the people of this area lived
through. He discusses causes and effects of cooperation between Lebanese and
their Israeli neighbours. He takes us on a journey from East Beirut to the
Jezzin area of Mount Lebanon as it would have been undertaken during the
years 1984 to 1990. The narrative starts at the Port of Beirut and follows
the sea route to Nakoura in South Lebanon. It then proceeds across the
mainland through various villages and towns, covering the geographic and
historic diversity of the population and the problems they faced. This is a
story of a society living in a part of the Holy Land, the land of the “Good
News”. It outlines a continuous struggle to survive, a search for a
long-lasting peace and a background worth considering in a Middle East
filled with hatred. We can, by reading between the lines, understand how
terrorism developed in this area and later expanded to the whole world. Some
of the questions and concerns the author raised in 1999 were answered at the
Twin Towers, the chaos in Paris, the attacks in the U.K. and Spain and,
unfortunately, on and on.
