Sitt+Marie+Rose

//Sitt Marie Rose //

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== Sitt Marie Rose opens up with a showing of a short film, shot in the desert by a group of men and Mounir. With the ending of the film we are introduced to Sitt Marie Rose and the group of men that will eventually kill her. At this point, Marie Rose and her friend, Mounir are planning to shoot his next film. They throw around different plots with Syrian workers – all of the ideas go nowhere, leading the book into the violence that will erupt in Beirut. The violence in the city is described, with the killing of innocent people and the two groups (the Christians and the Palestinian Militants) that have started this ‘war’. The streets are in chaos and the hospitals are full, with all the violence affecting Marie Rose’s views, she cannot do the film with Mounir. Fast-forward to a year and the violence still continues, with many dying everyday and truces that go nowhere. Marie is a teacher for deaf and mute students one day going into class, led in by four men with guns. Her students are unable to understand but know she doesn’t look happy. We later know Mounir is one of the men, and that he decides whether she lives or dies. The next chapters float to different narrators, talking about the war, their jaded lives and why Sitt Marie Rose will not live. Marie is questioned for her involvement with the Palestinian Resistance though she is a Christian and she constantly defends herself – even though she knows it will do little good. The men wonder why she is not dead already and the students sense that they fear this women. People hear of her capture and try to find ways to have her released, but Marie Rose will not cooperate, she will not sway in her ideals and does not want to be traded like an object. She wears her captures down, Mournir tries to reason with her but Marie Rose will not listen. She is finally executed in front of her students, her death symbolizing the conflict of the war, all stemming from conflicting ideals. ==

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__Forum Assignment__
 **__READ__** //Sitt Marie Rose// (Finish Book)  //Sitt Marie Rose// Wiki Page  ** __WRITE (300-500 word response)__ 1 )** Though the novel consists of many different narrators and points of view, the story revolves around Marie Rose and her eventual execution. From the beginning of the book and to the end, do you think Marie-Roses point of view and her narration style shift the closer it comes to the end? Why or why not? Include two quotes from the novel.


 * 2 )** //Sitt Marie Rose// is a story based on an actual woman during the Lebanese Civil War. After reading through Sitt Marie Rose, and looking over the Wiki page created, do you think Etel Adnan did a good job of portraying the war? Why or why not? Use at least one quote from the book, and at least one quote from the Wiki page, or from an external link provided on the Wiki page to help support your answer.

=__Biographical Information __=



Etel Adnan was not only a novelist, but a poet and an artist. “Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.” Due to the conflict at that time, Etel began her career as an artist. She would use her paintings as her creative outlet. After Etel moved to America for her graduate studies, she came across an artist that used to sit in the San Francisco cafes. After a few encounters with this artist, he gave Etel a Japanese folding book that he had started for her to continue. This inspired Adnan, and as she was going through it, determined that writing is drawing. It was very poetic to Adnan. This inspired her to go home and start writing poems, both for her artistic discovery, but to also use them as a political statement. She viewed these poems and eventually her novels as scrolls of artwork, to be slowly unrolled until you see the whole picture, not missing any details. __ The Early Years __ ==<span class="tahoma_12" style="display: block; font-size: 70%; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Etel Adnan, born in 1925, grew up in Beirut while it was still under French control. It was the ‘Paris of the East’, a blossoming Mediterranean metropolis with one foot in Europe and one in the Arab world. Her mother was a Christian Greek born in present-day Turkey and her father a Muslim Syrian, so she was already speaking Turkish and Greek at the age of five on entering a French convent-school. When not at school her Lebanese schoolmates spoke Arabic with one another. It is this variety of languages and cultures which lends Etal Adnan’s writings a unique and inimitable quality. Even after leaving school, she went on acquiring new languages. At the start of the 1950s she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne then in 1955 left to study in the USA, where she learned English so fast in her spare time that a few years later she could begin teaching at an American college near Berkeley. She has had a lifelong affection for the beauty of Arabic, most of which she taught herself with only a little prompting from her father, and deems it a language of poetry which, in spite of her limited fluency, she can understand better than prose. She never wearies of emphasizing the influence of languages on her work, as in the essay ‘To Write in a Foreign Language’, in which she details her memories of childhood, since ‘languages begin at home’. In her descriptions the languages and tallying cultures of the post-Osmanic period of her childhood become the last traces of a multi-lingual and almost Utopian world. ‘The Ottoman Empire was an ‘empire’, which meant it was no state with a unified group of people. It was an empire in which Turkish was not even the prevalent language. …So almost everyone knew at least a bit of another language besides his own; but everyone was rooted in his own community’s language and life.’ For this world, nearly a shared Arab paradise, she and many other Arabs have a unifying nostalgia, as she averred in an interview in 2007: “I grieve like most Arab artists for what this world could and should have become at the end of the Osmanic empire. It was a missed opportunity, a world which could have been totally different and which, for diverse reasons, among them the founding of the state of Israel, went from one disaster to the other …” The Second World War only strengthened the presence of various cultures and languages in Lebanon. Beirut became more international and cosmopolitan and, to Adnan’s eyes, the city shone as a microcosm of ‘war and fun’. Under the influence of British troops the city became trilingual, embodying ‘three cultures, three ways of life, three intellectual options’, which at the age of twenty she found thrilling and stimulating. It was at this time that she wrote her first poem ‘Le Livre de la Mer’ (The Sea-Book) in French. Her happy experience of the growth of a cosmopolitan world in her hometown Beirut was a foretaste of her experience of the USA later. Adnan became a collector of worlds. Her life became an ecstatic exploration of the New World, where she took to the English language and the sense of freedom, as on the US highways: “Riding in a car on the American highways was like writing poetry with one’s whole body.” Only here did the French side of her identity begin to crumble. During the war in Algeria she found that she ‘was unable to write freely in a language which brought her up against a deep conflict’. This conflict deprived her of words but not of expression. She sought a way out in the visual arts, a metier which she has never given up since. The Vietnam War was decisive for her late work. Adnan came back to language to write against the war, this time in English, which together with French later became the language of her international works. In the early 70s, after going on various trips to Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Syria, she gave up teaching at college and went back on the spur of the moment to Beirut, where she became a leading editor of the daily newspaper Al-Safa, recently begun and written in French. The city was still turbulent, active and flourishing and remained so up to the start of the civil war, which began in 1975 with fights between Christian phalangists and members of the PLO. Adnan, who was living in Paris at the time, began writing her first book ‘The Arabian Apocalypse’ after reading in a newspaper that phalangists in Beirut had kidnapped a young woman whom she had briefly known. The book turned out to be quite different to what she had planned beforehand in January, showing, so she believes, how ‘an event writes a book’. “One starts writing like a bird which traces a whiff of air. That’s what it’s like with art – one catches a wave and then gets carried away. So I wrote about the sun, the sun, the sun … When I got to the second page, the phalangists killed a group of Palestinians, the event which sparked the Lebanese civil war off.” Two years after the outbreak of war, Adnan left, like many other Lebanese, and waited in Paris for the situation to calm down. But instead of calming down, it only worsened over the years. During her stay in Paris she wrote her novel ‘Sitt Marie-Rose’ (1977), which is now a classic of Middle Eastern literature and has been translated into more than ten languages. ‘Sitt Marie-Rose’ is said to be one of the most impressive depictions of the early phase of the Lebanese civil war. With the war, Adnan had found her theme. Her Christian female protagonist is murdered by her own religious community after leaning towards Islam. After the novel was published, Adnan was threatened with murder by Christian phalangists and had to hold back from publishing more for the time being. ‘Sitt Marie-Rose’, written in French, was also Adnan’s first book against war: “Writing the story ‘Sitt Marie-Rose’, I became a pacifist, because I saw the horror of war. I was convinced – and I still am: Wars don’t solve problems, they only create new ones. Therefore, I am a pacifist... At the end of the book I thought: ‘If you write that, you should also live accordingly.” Even the following novels and writings of hers are about what has happened to her homeland since the war and about the folk who as victimizers and victims have remained and are haunted by their experiences. These works include ‘Of Cities and Women’, which she wrote from 1990-1992, and ‘In the Heart of Hearts of another Land’ (2003). ‘Of Women and Cities’ is based on letters which she wrote to a friend in Paris from Beirut, Barcelona, Rome, Aix-en-Provence and Berlin. Impressively, in a clear but poetic language rich in metaphors, she wrote about her return to war-torn Beirut, which to her was the child of the old city. Some buildings were stripped to their skeletons, and others defaced. Critically she observed the lack of recollection, the opulent excesses of the post-war phase, the parties and the themes of conversation. The ‘heart of the city is rotting’, she believed. Beirut was trying to forget the war and was losing its grip on reality. ‘‘Homeland’ and ‘identity’ must seem to Etel Adnan like words of a dead language,’’ wrote Stefan Weidner in the weekly German magazine Die Zeit. In fact the opposite seems to be true. ‘Beirut sticks to me like hot wax,’ she writes in her book ‘Of Cities and Women’, many of whose passages can be read as love-letters to her homeland. Her points of view are fascinating, since the various worlds through which she has wandered since childhood let her, now in her 80s, view conditions in Lebanon through the eyes of a dweller in Beirut as well as through those of an outsider. It is a game of farness and nearness like the zooming in and out of a camera. Adman claims to look at the Arab world from inside and outside, in being both detached and involved. How alien some things in her later home in California still seem to her can be read in a satirical paragraph of her novel ‘In the Heart of Hearts of another Land’: ‘The US government gathers important information about all dogs in the land. Since many citizens have already been filed ad nauseam, many computers are redundant and folk unemployed… How could anarchy ever break out in this rented, measured world of real estate in which life has become a soap-opera?’ Adnan, who in writing relies on her ‘feeling’ for themes, turns out in this case to have been a Cassandra. At the start of the 70s she found in a bookshop of the beat generation in San Francisco a work called ‘In the Heart of the Heart of the Country’ by the US author William Gass. Inspired by the way in which Gass, ‘section by section’ builds up a ‘mythical place’, Adnan began to record her dreams <span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">and to write aphorisms and short essays after returning to Beirut. She took this ‘poetic prose’ up in 2003 – a quarter of a century later – as the basis for ‘In the Heart of Hearts of another Land’, shortly before the outbreak of the Iraq war, to which she dedicated the last chapter of her book while in New York. Thanks to her feeling for themes and to her response to current events, her books are as controversial and up-to-date as they are poetic. She views the Arab world as a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">wounded body: “When one doesn’t name the illness, one cannot heal it." <span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Other Works by Etel Adnan __<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">    == <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">

__<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In English __
> Written in French, the novel was translated into English in 1982. It was inspired by the true story of a woman killed in the [|Lebanese Civil War] by a childhood friend who had become a member of the right-wing Christian [|Kataeb Party] party. Because of its controversial nature, the Arabic translation of the book was not marketed in Christian East Beirut. The novel criticizes the violence both of a Christianity that is "not in actual communication with any force other than the Dragon" and an Islam "forgets all too often that the divine mercy affirmed by the first verse of the Koran can only be expressed by human mercy." 
 * //[|Sitt Marie Rose]: A Novel// (1978)
 * Master of the Eclipse (2009)
 * Seasons (2008)
 * In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005)
 * In/somnia (2002)
 * There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other (1997)
 * To Write in a Foreign Language (1996)
 * Of Cities and Women, Letters to Fawwaz (1993)
 * Paris, When It's Naked (1993)
 * The Spring Flowers Own and the Manifestations of the Voyage (1990)
 * The Arab Apocalypse (1989)
 * Journey to Mount Tamalpais: An Essay (1985)
 * The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems (1985)
 * From A to Z Poetry (1982)

__In Arabic__

 * al-Sitt Mari Ruz: riwayah. (Sitt Marie Rose.), with Jirum Shahin and Firyal Jabburi Ghazul.Al-Qahirah: al-Hayah al-Ammah li-Qusur al-Thaqafah, 2000.
 * n mudun wa-nisa: rasail il Fawwaz. (Of Cities and Women.) Bayrut: Dar al-Hihar, 1998.
 * Kitab al-bahr; kitab al-layal; kitab al-mawt; kitab al-nihayah, with Abid Azarih. Bayrut: Dar Amwaj, 1994.
 * al-Sitt Marie Ruz. Bayrut: al-Mu-assasah al-Arabiyah lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 1979.

__I n French __

 * Ce ciel quinest pas. Paris: LHarmattan, 1997.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Rachid Korachi: lcriture passion, with Rachid Korachi and Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh. Alger: Galerie Mhamed Issiakhem, 1988.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lapocalypse arabe. Paris: Papyrus Editions, 1980.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sitt Marie Rose. Paris: Des Femmes, 1978.
 * Jbu: Suivi de lExpress Beyrouth enfer. Paris: P.J. Oswald, 1973

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<span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">For additional Biographical Information go to [] <span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">[|Source]

__<span style="display: block; font-size: 36px; color: #000080; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Literary Criticism __ <span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">There have been many mix reviews on the literary criticism on Sitt Marie Rose by <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Etel Adnan] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. Although most of the reviews have been giving the author major credit and calling her, “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today”. One great remark about the book can from the experience of an As a Lebanese, and, more importantly, as an anti-war activist, themselves, and said that this book was very powerful. Whereas others seemed to disagree with that statement, and not only go on to disagree with the book and the time and setting but also break the book apart with a Godawful review. Amazon shows an average rating of 3.77 stars out of five since May 2nd, 2007 so it seems as if this book has made its way around all over taking hits such as “it’s terribly depressing” and “Bookshelf”. However most of the Amazon raters gave it wonderful reviews saying “ Possibly one of the most powerful, passionate works of fiction I have ever read”, and “Adventurous and refreshing in structure and symbolism”. Although the reviews were mixed most agreed that. Part two is a bit confusing because it is written from the perspectives of three characters. Which I have to agree with myself, overall I as it seems like many others seem to like this book and really have nothing to negative to say about it. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"><span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">[] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">[]

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=__<span style="display: block; font-size: 36px; color: #000080; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Historical and Political Context __= <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);"> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);">**1975 13 April** - <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Phalangist gunmen ambush a bus in the Ayn-al-Rummanah district of Beirut, killing 27 of its mainly Palestinian passengers. The Phalangists claim that guerrillas had previously attacked a church in the same district. (These clashes are regarded as the start of the civil war). <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**1976 June** - <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Syrian troops enter Lebanon to restore peace but also to curb the Palestinians. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Israel Attacks __** <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1982 6 June - Following the attempted assassination of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain, Israel launches a full-scale invasion of Lebanon, "Operation Peace for Galilee". <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1983** 23 October - 241 US marines and 56 French paratroopers are killed in two bomb explosions in Beirut, responsibility for which is claimed by two militant Shia groups. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1985** - By 6 June most Israeli troops withdraw but some remain to support the mainly Christian South Lebanon Army (SLA) led by Maj-Gen Antoine Lahd which operates in a "security zone" in southern Lebanon. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**1985** 16 June - A TWA plane lands in Beirut after having been hijacked on a flight from Athens to Rome by two alleged members of Hezbollah demanding the release of Shia in Israeli jails. The crisis is resolved with the help of Syrian mediation. **1987** 21 May - Lebanon abrogates the 1969 Cairo agreement with the PLO as well as officially cancelling the 17 May 1983 agreement with Israel. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **1987** 1 June - After Prime Minister Rashid Karami is killed when a bomb explodes in his helicopter, Salim al-Huss becomes acting prime minister. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1988 22 September - When no candidate is elected to succeed him, outgoing President Amin al-Jumayyil appoints a six-member interim military government, composed of three Christians and three Muslims, though the latter refuse to serve. Lebanon now has two governments - one mainly Muslim in West Beirut, headed by Al-Huss, the other, Christian, in East Beirut, led by the Maronite Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Gen Michel Awn. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1989 14 March - Awn declares a "war of liberation " against the Syrian presence in Lebanon. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Civil war ends __**
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civil War begins __ **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">__Buffer zone set up__ **
 * 1983** 17 May - Israel and Lebanon sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal, ending hostilities and establishing a security region in southern Lebanon.
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">__Two governments, one country__ **
 * 1990 13 October** - The Syrian air force attacks the Presidential Palace at B'abda and Awn takes refuge in the French embassy. This date is regarded as the end of the civil war.
 * 1990 24 December** - Umar Karami heads a government of national reconciliation

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Recently, on May 13th, 2009 a student at the University of California named Jenna Frazier performed at the Second Annual Research Slam hosted on that schools campus. The title of her performance was "Sitt-Marie Rose: The Deaf-Mute Perspective" It is described by her as: "Using web design and text-analysis tools to explore the significance of the deaf-mute sections in Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie-Rose" ([]).

Etel Adnan, on top of being an author and a poet, was an artist, a painter. According to the website, Ardvark.me, they talk about Etal Adnan and her art by the following: "Poet, painter and tapestry designer Etel Adnan’s individual and group shows have taken her to countries all over the Middle East, to France, Italy, Japan and the United States in particular and her works are in prestigious private and public collection" ([]).

Below is a painting created by Etel Adnan

media type="youtube" key="xQtibuTOz9w" height="344" width="425" <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The following video was found on Youtube.com. The description of the video is "a stop motion based on the text of etel adnan a lebanese poet". []

<span style="display: block; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> media type="youtube" key="6SJqOnodejg" height="344" width="425" This is a video slideshow of pictures before, during, and after the Lebanon Civil war from 1975-1990 []

media type="youtube" key="_LIJ__XwefI" height="344" width="425" This is documentry style video about the begining of the Lebanese civil war. The narrator's description about the begining of the war is very similar to that of the text in //Sitt Marie Rose.// In //Sitt Marie Rose// on page 11, the beginning of the war is described as follows:

"On the thirteenth of April 1975 Hatred erupts... Sunday noon a bus full of Palestinians returning to their camp passes a church where the head of the Phalangist party and other Christians are celebrating the mass. That morning a Phalangist was killed in front of that chuch... militiamen stop the bus, make its occupants get off, and shoot them one after the other." []

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This is the link to Amazon.Com for the book //Sitt Marie Rose.// <span style="color: rgb(0,128,128);"> []

This is the Wikipedia page for Etel Adnan []

This is the Wikipedia page for //Sitt Marie Rose// []

This is the Wikipedia page for the Lebanese Civil War []**