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What if Lebanon's crisis has been misunderstood for decades because it has been trapped inside false and reductionist binaries? In Lebanon and the Reductionist Binaries, Wissam Charafeddine offers a bold and thought-provoking reflection on the intertwined crises shaping modern Lebanon. Moving beyond slogans and familiar political clichés, this book examines the relationship between resistance and the state, religion and civil order, pluralism and cohesion, sovereignty and dependency, and Lebanese survival and the broader Arab question. Through a series of incisive essays that blend political analysis, moral argument, and civilizational reflection, Charafeddine challenges the binaries that have long distorted Lebanese public discourse and prevented deeper understanding. He argues that Lebanon's predicament cannot be explained only by internal corruption or regional conflict, but must also be understood within the limitations of the modern nation-state in the Arab East, the decline of international law and moral consistency in the Western order, and the absence of a broader framework capable of safeguarding justice, dignity, and collective security. This is not a book of partisan slogans or easy answers. It is a call to think more honestly and more deeply about Lebanon's future: about the meaning of a just state, the place of pluralism, the necessity of an ethically grounded public sphere, and the possibility of a broader Arab horizon as part of any serious path out of crisis. For readers of Lebanese politics, Arab political thought, Middle Eastern affairs, religion and public life, and questions of sovereignty and identity, this book offers both a challenge and an invitation: to confront inherited assumptions, to resist intellectual simplifications, and to imagine Lebanon beyond the binaries that have kept it imprisoned.

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