Lebanon, the Trembling Entity - From Bechara El-Khoury to Michel Aoun

Lebanon, the Shaky Entity – The deplorable reality experienced by Lebanese citizens, coupled with serious dramatic developments in the Middle East that suggest the possibility of a new Middle East, especially with the expansion of Arab normalization with the Israeli enemy, makes us question the fate and role of Lebanon in the region's new geopolitical map... In the process of searching for convincing answers about what the future of Lebanon as a "state" might entail, it is necessary to revisit the circumstances of the Greater Lebanon's establishment and the accompanying events and adopted governance mechanisms, and how it interacted with regional issues from the Nakba of Palestine to the Deal of the Century. It is also essential to consider what this entails for the forces of change to formulate a future vision that lays the foundations for a modern, democratic, pluralistic, and just state of citizenship in Lebanon, ending eras of lost stability. This book, with its historical narratives and facts, and through its analytical contexts of successive periods of governance in Lebanon from the presidency of Bechara El Khoury to Michel Aoun, attempts to answer these questions.