Social Issues-Lebanon

Lebanon is the only country in the Middle East where there is almost an equal number of Muslims and Christians. It was called in the bible ''the land of milk and honey''. The capital of Lebanon is Beirut (Paris of western Asia).the famous singer is half Lebanon is ''Shakira''. It's bordered by five countries Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria and Israel.

Lebanon had many problems such as increased tensions between Muslims and Christians between 1943, 1948. Christians held the balance of power whereas Muslims had little this was the result of the tensions. In 1975 Christian groups killed a bus full of Palestinians people. In 1982 the Israeli army invaded the city with the aim of removing the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO). A pea's deal reached in 1989. There were human and economic costs of the conflict about 180,000 people died during the civil another 300,000 were wounded around a quarter of the population in Lebanon and Beirut's economy was moved. Some people born in Beirut are not Lebanon and don't have the Lebanese citizen right.

Nowadays, Lebanon is from best tourism countries in the world. Now the government of Lebanon started to build and renew the old buildings. The people who leaved Lebanon in civil war started to coming back to Beirut.