Beirut on the stage: the Great War in melodrama by Rogan, E

“…While little is known of the author, George Murad, details from the preface and dedication to the printed edition would situate him among pro-French Maronite Christians seeking independence for a greater Lebanon under French protection. The play, “Beirut on the Stage,” would appear to have been an example of political theatre seeking to validate the wartime suffering of Lebanese Christians through a vision of independence that, by the time the play was published in 1920, had already been undermined by French measures to colonise, rather the liberate, Greater Lebanon.…”

Le Liban-Sud entre deux générations de réformistes by Sabrina Mervin

“…Since its creation just after the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the journal published the reformist ideas of clergy and educated men, who were mostly Shi'ite and who originated from the Jabal 'Amil (which, after the creation of Greater Lebanon in 1920, became Southern Lebanon). A true forum for discussion, the journal was the place where all issues were debated from political and religious questions to problems in society. …”
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