A House of Many Mansions by Kamal Salibi5/29/2023 Nevertheless, under the surface it seems that tectonic changes are already taking place, evidenced most clearly, in my own opinion, in the often glossed over lack of violent clashes among the Lebanese after the recent assassinations, even notwithstanding the failure of the traditional (and very much tribally organized) political leaders to solve either the political stalemate in general or the presidential question in particular as a first step in that direction.’ In the short term, at least on the surface, it may seem like a utopian dream as remote as the ‘Africa Unite’ of rastafarianism. In the long run, this is probably what is bound to happen – at least it is what should be brought about if the country as such is to survive. ‘Salibi’s vision, then, is a hopeful and optimistic one, envisaging a further harmonizing of the identities of the various population groups in the country to ultimately merge into a single, multifaceted but shared, Lebanese identity.
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