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A RESPONSE TO PHILIP KHOURY'S REVIEW OF THE CONSCIENCE OFLEBANON: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF ETIENNE SAKR (ABU-ARZ) (IJMES 36 [2004]: 306–8)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2005

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I intend not to defend my book but to protest its “reviewer,” whose first responsibility—as for any reviewer—was to relate what the book is about, even chapter by chapter. But Philip Khoury betrayed the reviewer's task concerning my book The Conscience of Lebanon, choosing to use it as a foil to propagate his own Arabist and anti–Israeli political views. His was not a book review but a mean-spirited tirade. He writes, “Etienne Sakr was a minor Lebanese militia leader,” though I deal with this point myself; the review is jaundiced by repetitive labeling (“right-wing Lebanese leaders”) and vindictively vilifies my study as not a “systematic work of scholarship.”

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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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