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Une guerre pour les autres (The war of the others) The Lebanese Civil War has been the subject of debate and interpretation of several scholars, politicians, and international relations experts, most of who believe that the Lebanese war had resulted from the interconnected internal and external conditions that have increasingly built up and eventually exploded into an internal conflict. I have chosen to read Ghassan Tueni’s interpretation on the Lebanese civil war in his book “Une guerre pour les autres” or “War of the others”, namely because the author was a close witness of the Lebanese war especially as he was the country’s ambassador to the United Nations for several years and owned one of the country’s most influential newspapers, “An-nahar”. Tueni who has written this book ten years after the beginning of the Civil War (1985) warns his readers that it is neither an essay on the history of Lebanon nor an analysis of the war’s events and sequels, but his personal reflection on the war’s mercilessness, which has led him to be a witness against the foreign forces that have used Lebanon as their battlefield to serve their interests. The book begins with a preface by ‘Dominique Chevalier’, a