Sentences with phrase «lebanese civil»

A variety of unexpected problems [have] made it impractical to stage the contest, including the Egyptian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi Revolution, the Dhofar Rebellion, the Adwan Rebellion, the Ararat Rebellion, the Dersim Rebellion, World Wars I and II, the Arab - Israeli Wars, the Iran - Iraq War, the Anglo - Iraqi War, the Franco - Syrian War, the Saudi - Yemeni War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, the Yemeni Civil Wars, the Suez Crisis, the Siege of Mecca, several intifadas, Operation Ajax, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the assassination of King Abdullah I of Jordan, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the assassinations of numerous Iraqi and Iranian prime ministers, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, several genocides targeting the Kurds and Yazidis, the Semele Massacre, the Hama Massacre, the Mecca Massacre, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, a combined total of over 14 coups d'etat, and inclement weather, among other causes.

The Vietnam War and the Lebanese Civil War have profoundly affected the development and scope of his themes dealing with violence and war.

Raad was born in Lebanon in 1967 but emigrated to the United States in 1983 because of the escalating violence of the Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990).

Lebanese - American Walid Raad's retrospective spans twenty years of artworks that study Beirut, the Lebanese civil war and the Arab art world.

And I think that's because Raad's biography, as well as the details of the Lebanese Civil War, are only useful tools for experiencing the exhibition up to a point — a point that comes shockingly and disarmingly soon after entering the galleries.

Rami George was born in the summer of «89, a year known for its numerous revolutions, the signing of the Taif Agreement (beginning the end of the Lebanese Civil War), and the conception of the World Wide Web.

The title of the exhibition derives from the story Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan, which reflects on the life and execution of Marie Rose Boulos during the Lebanese Civil War.

Well that's not the case when you see the city today, which has been rebuilt and modernised since the end of the Lebanese Civil War.

Elsewhere, a perfectly circular «bomb pond», made by an American bomb in a Cambodian rice - field, forms part of the photographic series «Takeo» (2009) by the young Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana, while an antique exhibit from the National Museum in Beirut was transformed into a fusion of metal, ivory, glass and terracotta by the bombs that fell there during the Lebanese civil war (1975 — 90) and thus given a new abstract beauty.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

Sabsabi's work, miniature paintings made of the hundreds of photos of the Lebanese civil war he has collected, is reminiscent of Richter's photo - paintings, though neither the technique nor the purpose are the same.

Rami George was born in the summer of «89: a year known for its numerous revolutions; the signing of the Taif Agreement, beginning the end of the Lebanese Civil War; and the conception of the World Wide Web.

He's been too busy carting his large - format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.

A selection of ancient artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut, melted together by shell fire endured during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to the preservation of objects whose profound transformations make them even more powerful representatives of the past.

In 1980, fleeing the Lebanese Civil War which raged from 1975 to 1990, she settled in California and founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work.

Hatoum was 23 when she first came to London, on holiday; during her stay, the Lebanese civil war broke out, so she stayed on, under the UK passport her father had acquired for the whole family through his embassy job.

Now living in the US, Raad's work The Atlas Group (1989 - 2004) is rooted in his experiences as a teenager in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil Wars.

The Lebanese - born director has a compelling biography both behind and ahead of him, having fled the Lebanese Civil War as a child and winning film awards alongside his brother, Fares Fares.

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war before emigrating to New York.

Insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's volatile past.

Against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war, an Israeli pilot shot down over Beirut forms an unlikely bond with one of his captors, a proud Palestinian boy.

The Foundation's mission is to promote the evolution of the Lebanese civil society; its services touch 15 % of the country's citizens.

The Lebanese civil war, fought in the streets of Beirut, exhibited another side of the vulnerability of urban water supplies.

In the 1980s, in the wake of the Lebanese Civil War, Bahrain established itself as a regional financial center.

... 103,536... 1,033,000 Greek Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1918)... 200,000... 1,000,000 A-ssyrian Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1918)... 275,000... 750,000 Somali Civil War (1991 - present).............................. 350,000............ 500,000 Parti - tion of India (1947)... 300,000... 300,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990)... 130,000... 250,000 Serbian War (1992 - 1995)... 96,667... 96,667 Arab - Israeli Wars (1945 - 1995)... 92,000... 92,000 Afghanistan War (2001 - present)... 57,774... 77,774 Iranian Revolution (1979)... 3,000... 60,000 Spanish Inquisition (1480 - etc.)

How about the never ending Israeli / Palestine conflict (pick any war ara - isralie, six day, lebanon, gaza), ethiopian / somalian absynnian - adal war, the lebanese civil war, the nigerian conflict still going on, the darfur conflict, just to name a few in the past 50 years.

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

103,536 1,033,000 9/11 (2001) 2,996 2,996 Afghanistan War (2001 - present) 57,774 77,774 Lynchings by KKK, etc. (Since 1882) 4,733 4,733 Siege of Jerusalem (70) 1,100,000 1,100,000 Serbian War (1992 - 1995) 96,667 96,667 Arab - Israeli Wars (1945 - 1995) 92,000 92,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990) 130,000 250,000

Not exact matches

Because of the sectarian nature of Lebanese politics, modern Lebanese history is rife with coups, invasions, civil wars and government shutdowns.

As George moves towards a meditation on the spectre of Civil War within the Lebanese diaspora, Taal looks to linguistic boundaries and folklore in her understandings of matrilineal relations in Gambian culture.

Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books on international affairs, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War and the International Drug Traffic.

Current affairs, human and civil rights, nightlife, arts and just about anything interesting that's not given enough attention by offline media, at least not in a way that many young, liberal Lebanese would like to see tackled.

Lastly, Macksoud and Aber (1996) and Ahmad et al. (1998) have also observed chronic / continuous PTSD in samples of Lebanese children exposed to single events in civil war and Iraqi Kurdish children respectively.