Lebanon

Lebanon is a country in Asia and it’s in the heart of the Middle East and the nickname for the capital of Lebanon Beirut is Paris of the East. Lebanon was mention 76 times in the bible and called it the land of milk and honey. Lebanon is the country which has the most books written about it. Some of famous people came from Lebanon. For example there is Shakira who is half Lebanese also the actor Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon.

Lebanon is located in the middle of the five countries. It’s in the north of Jordan and Israel and its in the west of Syria and in the north of Turkey and Cyprus. Lebanon is located in a very important place. Also we can notice the number between Muslims and Christians are equal. There are two things that happened of Muslims and Christians in the past in Lebanon. The first circumstance happened in 1943 after the French left. Christians held the balance of power and Muslims had little say in the running of their country. The second happened in 1948 when Palestinian Muslims refugees fuelled resentment amongst Lebanese Christians. Those two events made the increase of tensions between Muslims and Christians. Also the tension between them increased more in 1975 because a Christian’s group attacked and killed a bus full of the Palestinians .The result was that the violence began to spiral out of control. In 1982 the Israeli army invaded the city with the aim of removing the Palestinian Liberation Organisation but in 1989 the peace deal reached. The result of this conflict was 150000 to 200000 people died and 300000 were wounded. Also Beirut’s economy was paralysed.

These days Beirut has improved in economically after the conflict decreases and some social signs also became better. The signs are money is pouring in from business in the Gulf States, European Arabs and tourists love to spend time in Beirut and the Syrian soldiers left Lebanon. That air pollution and living expensive is some current problems in Lebanon.

Bibliography:

Eye on Lebanon. Royal Geographical Society. 4 June 2009 http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring06/eyeon/index.html