Samir Kassir on the Lebanese Civil War

Samir Kassir's book on the Lebanese Civil War is better than many books published on the war but it has serious problems: it does not deviate from the standard Muslims-versus-Christians, and it contains many cliches about Lebanon and the war (like the silly notion perhaps started by Albert Hourani that the Maronites "revived" Arabic language during the Nahdah, as if Muslims and non-Maronite Arab Christians had forgotten their language only to be told by Maronite Lebanese to remember the language.  And what does "revive" mean?  And as if the Egyptian men and women of belle lettres were asleep at the wheel at the time).  But there is more and may require in response an article if not a book.