Popoli – 12/1993

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The agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has opened up new prospects for peace in the Middle East, but it seems to ignore Lebanon, which is living its drama “protected” by the “Syrian pax”. The emigration of Arab-Christians risks compromising the balance and peaceful coexistence between different religious groups that has always characterized the country. Giuseppe Samir Eid is the author of the volume “Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs” (NED, Milan, 1991) and collaborator of the CADR, the Ambrosian Documentation Centre for Religions in Milan.

Lebanon, “loubnan”, a land of welcome, has always been the refuge of persecuted communities. Its mountains, already known in ancient times for their precious forests, proved to be a well-kept refuge for ethnic and religious minorities from the years immediately following the Arab conquest of Syria. In the 20th century they welcomed refugees of the most diverse religious faiths from the surrounding regions.

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ROTARY- Pag. 24-27 – 10-20

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The speech of the PDG Piero Marcenaro on the n.5 of “Rotary”, May 20 ”, was an incentive for me to deepen the subject and express my thoughts on a situation that does not concern only and exclusively oil. The armed intervention in Iraq has deep and remote roots that I could trace back more than a century ago and concerns the situation of the Middle Eastern Arab world in general. In particular, I refer to some events that have profoundly affected the feelings of the Arab peoples towards the West, the U.S.A. in particular, propitiators of armed intervention in Iraq.

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