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ajiss-867	Anzalone, Christopher	The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon from Al-Qaeda to ISIS By Bernard Rougier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.259 pages.)	2017.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1665	50	38	Rougier argues that the contentious political disputes and competition among the country’s mainstream Sunni political figures (e.g., the al-Hariri family), as well as the impact of Syrian control of large parts of Lebanon be- tween 1976 and 2005 and ensuing power vacuum after its withdrawal, enabled the emergence of jihadi militancy. Initially Book Reviews 113 ajiss34-1_ajiss 1/23/2017 11:56 AM Page 113 al-Hariri, backed by Saudi Arabia, actively supported the anti-Asad opposition and worked to keep a channel open from Lebanon into Syria, specifically the governorate of Homs, in order to support the Syrian rebel forces located there.	cache/ajiss-867.pdf	txt/ajiss-867.txt