1. XX and XXI centuries: key dates
 

2. The civil war 1975-1989
 

3. The confessional structure
 

4. Lebanon-Syria: a controversial relation
 

5. Hezbollah

Do you want to know more?

- Corm, G., Le Liban contemporain. Histoire et société, La découverte, Paris 2003 et 2005

- el-Khazen F., The breakdown of the state in Lebanon 1967-1976, I.B. Tauris, London 2000

- Kassir S., Histoire de Beyrouth, Fayard, Paris 2003

- Salibi K., A house of many mansions: the history of Lebanon reconsidered, University of California Press, Berkley 1990

- Fisk, R., Pity the nation: Lebanon at war, Oxford University Press, London 2001

- Mervin, S., Le Hezbollah, état des lieux, Arles, Actes Sud 2008