Faultlines

Lebanon

Monday 29 May 2006 20:00-20:30 (Radio 4 FM)

Allan Little analyses four parts of the world where the 'tectonic plates' of history keep bringing the regions into the news headlines generation after generation.

Lebanon sits among some of the strongest cross currents of history, currents that pulled it into a vortex of war and mayhem that ended just 15 years ago. Allan looks at the reasons why Lebanon's beguiling cultural and religious pluralism dragged it towards mutual destruction. What were the fault lines that became battle lines?

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