Women and War in Lebanon 0813017076

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Women and War in Lebanon

Women and War

in Lebanon

Edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh

University Press of Florida Gainesville - Tallahassee - Tampa - Boca Raton Pensacola - Orlando - Miami - Jacksonville

Copyright 1999 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 4 All rights reserved 04503" 02) 0100) 9965534535251

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women and war in Lebanon / edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8130-1707-6 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Women—Lebanon—Beirut—Social conditions. 2. Women—Lebanon— Beirut—Psychology. 3. Women in public life—Lebanon—Beirut. 4. Women soldiers— Lebanon—Beirut. 5. Lebanese literature (Arabic)—Women authors. 6. Lebanon— History—Civil War, 1975-1990. I. Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum, 1940-.

HQ1728.W63 1999 305.4’095692’5—dce21

99-17516

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Dedicated to my husband, Isam

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving, “The Wife,” Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, 1819-1820

CONTENTS

List of Tables

xi

List of Abbreviations

Preface

xiii

xv

Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction

3

2. The Warin Lebanon

7

3. Women before the War

30

Part II. The Public Sphere

4. Women in the Public Sphere Lamia Rustum Shehadeh

45

Part III. Creative Women

5. Mapping Peace

73

Miriam Cooke 6. A Panorama of Lebanese Women Writers, 1975-1995

89

Mona Takieddine Amyuni 7. Lebanon Mythologized or Lebanon Deconstructed: Two Narratives of National Consciousness

112

Elise Salem Manganaro 8. Art, the Chemistry of Life

129

Lamia Rustum Shehadeh Part IV. Women

at War

9. Women in the Lebanese Militias 145 Lamia Rustum Shehadeh 10. Lebanese Shi‘i Women and Islamism: A Response to War Maria Holt 11. Maman Aida, a Lebanese Godmother of the Combatants:

Fighting without Arms 195 Kari H. Karamé 12. From Gunpowder to Incense Jocelyn Khweiri

209

167

Part V. Foreign Women

13. Profiles of Foreign Women in Lebanon during the Civil War Mary Bentley Abu Saba

229

Part VI. Psychological Sequelae

14. War Trauma and Women: Predisposition and Vulnerability to Adverse Psychological Health Outcomes 259 Leila Farhood

15. Women and the Lebanon Wars: Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 272 Elie G. Karam 16. Substance Use and Abuse: The Lebanese Female and the Lebanon Wars 282 P. Yabroudi, E. Karam, A. Chami, A. Karam, M. Majdalani,

V. Zebouni, N. Melhem, C. Mansour, and S. Saliba Part VII. Conclusion A War of Survival Bibliography

335

Contributors

351

Index

353

323

TABLES