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Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East

Walid Khalidi
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
Fall 1980
Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East
Walid Khalidi
Harvard Center for International Affairs
1980
217 pp.
$12.95
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Walid Khalidi is a Palestinian Arab, a resident of Beirut, and a scholar who has made his mark in the West. No better analysis of the Lebanese war of 1975-76, with its complex interaction of internal and international forces, has been written.

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