Social Issues – Lebanon

Lebanon is a very important and ancient country. It was mentioned 76 times in the bible and it was called “the land of milk and honey”. Its capital Beirut was nicknamed as “the Paris of the Middle East”. Lebanon is surrounded by several Arab and non –Arab countries which are Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus. In this essay am going to talk about the modern history and about Lebanon today.
This beautiful country has gone throw a lot of awful experiences. In the beginning, the problems first rose when the French gave the independence to the country in 1943 and the Christians in Lebanon at that time had the full power and the biggest role in controlling their country more than Muslims, this increased the tension between them. In 1975, the tension has reached its peak when the phalange a Christian religious group attacked and killed a bus full of Palestinians in Beirut. This tension resulted in killing almost 2000 Palestinians. Moreover, in 1982 the Israeli army invaded the Beirut in order to remove the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO). After eight years from the invasion a peace deal was made although this deal was made there were a lot of costs. About 200,000 people died and 300,000 were injured as well as the city’s economy froze.


Beirut tried to recover from what happened to it in the past years. The divisions are no longer seen and the hostilities are vanishing. A huge building program has been made to rebuild the city and began 18 years ago even though there are some attacks happen recently in the south. The peace is been established between Lebanese leaving religion out of the way. Nevertheless, still there are some problems faced by the country such as the high number of population and the low GDD.
In conclusion, even though Beirut has gone throw a very hard time and it’s still struggling to live, it earned itself the title “the city that would not die”. I hope that we all learn how to be strong like Lebanese.