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Front page of Assafir's November 4, 1987 issue, announcing the upcoming general strike.

Digging Through the Archives for the 1987 Strike That Braved the Barricades

By
Sintia Issa Karim Merhej
Beirut’s sea wall at the height of Lebanon’s “Golden Age.” May 1, 1965. (Indiana University Archives, Charles Cushman Collection)

Paradise Lost? The Myth of Lebanon’s Golden Era

By
Karim Merhej

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