Open AccessRecovering Women's Voices in Post-War Lebanon
Author(s) -
Laurie King-Irani
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.879
Subject(s) - notice , spanish civil war , history , ancient history , political science , population , economic history , demography , law , sociology , archaeology
Two important historical landmarks passed with scarcely any notice in Lebanon this year. April 1995 marked the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of one of the longest and most devastating civil wars of the twentieth century - or indeed, ofany century. The Lebanese war killed more than 150,000 people (most of them civilians) out of a total population of three million.