Brig. General Jean Nassif – Military Career and Patriotic Lessons

President Fouad Chehab – The 2nd Bureau – The Quadripartite Security Committee
(2023, Arabic) Available at Librairie Antoine

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Back cover
Index
Section 3 Chapter 8: My Relationship with President Chehab
Section 3 Chapter 10: The Presidential Elections 1970
Section 4 Chapter 13: President Chehab’s letters to India
Section 4 Chapter 15: President Chehab Defends the 2nd Bureau

The Experience of Fouad Chehab

Political Change in a Pluralist Society

(Simon Kachar – 2023 – Arabic)
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Index
Introduction by Nassif Hitti
Section 2 Chapter 4: Lebanon’s Regional and International Relations
Section 2 Chapter 6: The IRFED Mission and Building Public Policies

Fouad Chehab – The Approach of a Commander and a President

Faten Al Hajj Hassan (2023 – Arabic)

Back cover

Introduction

Part 1

Fouad Chehab: Pro and Con
A pioneering ruling experience in the history of contemporary Lebanon

(Lwis Saliba – Dar Byblion – 2024 – Arabic)

Back cover

Fouad Chehab

(Bassem El Jisr)
(translated from Arabic and published by the Fouad Chehab Foundation, 2018)

(Recommended to read)

Le Naufrage des Civilisations

(Amine Maalouf)
Grasset publishers – April 2019

In this book, Maalouf dedicates a chapter on the Lebanese and regional crisis of 1958, and the role and wisdom of President Chehab during this period and the following years of his presidency.

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Fouad Chéhab 1902-1973 – Une Figure Oubliée de l’Histoire Libanaise

(Stéphane Malsagne)

(Editions Karthala & Ifpo, October 2011, French)

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Sommaire
Introduction – Penser Fouad Chéhab

Le Journal du Père Lebret 1959-1964

Chronique de la construction d’un Etat

(Stéphane Malsagne, October 2014, French)

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On 19 August 1960
On 7 April 1961
On 20 January 1964
On 2 November 1964

A review of the book

Le Chéhabisme

(Georges Naccache, Conférences du Cénacle Libanais, November 1960, French)

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The whole booklet

(This is the famous conference in which the notion ‘Chehabism” was introduced for the first time, and its philosophy expanded)

Les Discours du Président Chéhab – 1958-1964

(Official presidential booklet, 1964, French)

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Part 1: Messages à la Nation Libanaise
Part 2: Messages aux Libanais d’Outre-Mer
Part 3: Messages à l’Armée
Part 4: Discours Internationaux / Discours Sociaux / Vœux de Nouvel An

Fouad Boutros – Mémoires

(Autobiography)

(translated from Arabic by Jana Tamer, published by Les éditions L’Orient-Le-Jour/MMO, April 2010, French)

Read two excerpts from Part 1 ‘With the Emir’:

Chapter 1 – The story of the meeting that never ended
Chapter 5 – Chehab and Chehabism

Besoins et Possibilités de Développement du Liban (Mission IRFED)

Needs and Possibilities of Development in Lebanon
(Study by the IRFED Mission, 1960-61, French)

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– Index
– General conclusion

(This is the preliminary study on which President Chehab based his development projects)

Le Chéhabisme

(Marwan Harb, 2008, French)

Excerpts:
La Philosophie du Chéhabisme

Le Chéhabisme sous la Présidence de Fouad Chéhab

(Stéphane Malsagne, Mémoire de Maîtrise d’Histoire à la Sorbonne, 1992, French)

Extraits de l’ouvrage:

1- La relation du Président Chéhab avec le Père Lebret
2- La correspondance du Président Chéhab avec le Père Lebret
3- Les audiences du Président Chéhab avec le Père Lebret 
4- Mythe de l’intervention de l’armée

Le Mandat Fouad Chéhab 1958-1964

(Joseph Chami, Le Mémorial du Liban, Tome 4, 2003, French)

Quelques pages de l’ouvrage:

Octobre 1958 – Le Cabinet de Quatre
Mars 1959 – Sommet Chéhab-Nasser à la frontière libano-syrienne
Juillet 1960 – Chéhab annonce sa démission puis la retire
Bilan du mandat Fouad Chéhab

Beyrouth et ses Urbanistes – 1946-1975

(Eric Verdeil, Ifpo publications, 2011, French)

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The whole book
Chapter 3: Fouad Chehab’s Presidency, a New Deal

Fouad Chehab

(Bassem El Jisr)

(published by The Fouad Chehab Foundation, 1998, Arabic)

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Part 1: Before the Presidency
Part 2: President
Part 3: After the Presidency
Part 4: Chehabism

(Recommended to read)

Fouad Chehab’s Republic

(Nicolas Nassif)

(published by Dar Al Nahar and The Fouad Chehab Foundation, November 2008, Arabic)

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Chapter 1 – The prediction
Chapter 5 – The silent one
Chapter 17 – The confusing neighborhood
Chapter 27 – The witness
Conclusion

(Available in bookshops – Recommended to read)

Between a Monk and an Emir

(Father Yacoub Skayyem)

(published by Kaslik, 2014, Arabic)

Download and read excerpts from this NEW book in which Father Skayyem, a close friend of President Chehab, shares his meetings & interactions with him as noted down in his personal diary:

Part 1: Year 1967
Part 2: 16 February – 22 May 1969
Part 3: 28 July – 25 December 1969
Part 4: 10 April – 19 August 1970
Part 5: Year 1973 & death of President Chehab 

ِArticle on – Al Nahar, May 19, 2015

Chehabism

(Georges Naccache)

(Conférences du Cénacle Libanais, November 1960, Arabic)

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The whole booklet

(This is the famous conference in which the notion ‘Chehabism” was introduced for the first time, and its philosophy expanded)

Fouad Boutros – The Memoirs

(Autobiography)

(Dar Al Nahar, January 2009, Arabic)

Read two excerpts from Part 1 ‘With the Emir’:

Chapter 1 – The story of the meeting that never ended
Chapter 5 – Chehab and Chehabism

Fouad Chehab – The builder of the Independence State – Testimonials

(Published by the Fouad Chehab Foundation, 2005, Arabic)

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Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

I Am One of You

President Elias Sarkis

(A pictorial biography, November 2012, Arabic/English)

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How General Chehab met Elias Sarkis

Chehabism – A school of visionary modernisation

(Toufik Anis Kfoury, November 2012,Arabic)

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Summary – Intro – Chapter 1 – Chapter 5
Chapter 6 – Chapter 10 (Part 1 – Part 2)
Chapter 11 (Part 1 – Part 2) – Conclusion

Media report (Al Arabi Magazine)

Collection of President Fouad Chehab Speeches

(Official Presidential booklet, 1964, Arabic)

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Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

The Civil State – The Fouad Chehab’s Experience

(Nada Hassan Fayyad, AlMaaref Forum, 2011, Arabic)

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– Index
– Chapter 5: The Chehabist experience – The elements of national bonding
– General conclusion

– Media Report (Annahar – 13 January 2013) 

The Chehabism Philosophy

(Fadel Saeed Akl, 1964, Arabic)

Excerpts – Articles on President Chehab from the foreign media 1962-1963:

– ‘The military man that teaches democracy’ – Jeune Afrique (1962)
– ‘Lebanon a model state in the Arab world’ – Pierre Rondot, La Croix (1963)
– ‘Democracy Day’ – Ghassan Tuéni, Annahar (1962, on Independence Day)
– ‘Lebanon celebrates his Independence Day with fervor’ – Le Monde / Jeune Afrique (1962)
– ‘The wise man of the Middle East’ – Catholic Digest (1962) / Braunschweiger Zeitung (1963)

Chehabism and the Policy of Decision

(Toufic Kfoury, 1980, Arabic)

Read excerpts from the book:
1- The Chehabist principles
2- The Chehabist social reforms – part 1
3- The Chehabist social reforms – part 2

Fouad Chehab – Commander and President

(Wakim Bou Lahdou, 1996, Arabic)

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Chapter 8 – President Fouad Chehab, The Man

Chapter 10 – And His Heart Stopped…
Part 1 (includes testimonies and press articles in Arabic after President Chehab’s death)
Part 2 ( includes testimonies and press articles in French)

Fouad Chehab – That Unknown

(Bassem Al Jisr, 1998, Arabic)

Read excerpts from the book:
Introduction
Chapter 5 – How Chehab accepted the presidency against his will

Fouad Chehab

(Elias Al Diri, Annahar files “Lebanon 1970”, booklet # 1, 1970, Arabic)

The Second Bureau – ruler in the background

(Nicolas Nassif, published by Dar Moukhtarat, 2005, Arabic)