{"id":422,"date":"2007-02-17T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnstamfordlibrary.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/17\/lebanon-a-geopolitical-analysis\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:40:56","slug":"lebanon-a-geopolitical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2007\/02\/17\/lebanon-a-geopolitical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLebanon: A Geopolitical Analysis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Presentation by:   Dr. Jeff Coulter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>                                      Professor of  Sociology<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>                                      Boston University <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> When: Monday, February 19, 2007; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Where: Multi Purpose Room, room 108<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>                     ground floor of Campus building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why is it that we constantly hear about the sovereign state of Lebanon in the news about the Middle East and still know very little about it? Lebanon emerged out of the Ottoman domain only to expirience demographic<br \/>\nupheavals, sectarian politics, two civil wars, invasions and assassinations.  Understanding the tragic history of<br \/>\nLebanon is necessary to grasp the current situation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a forum on the geopolitical landscape of Lebanon.<br \/>\nThis Event is sponsored by the Programming Committee of the Stamford Regional Campus.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation by: Dr. Jeff Coulter Professor of Sociology Boston University When: Monday, February 19, 2007; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Where: Multi Purpose Room, room 108 ground floor of Campus building Why is it that we constantly hear about the sovereign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2007\/02\/17\/lebanon-a-geopolitical-analysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL2n-6O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}