Safer Barlik · Famine in Mount Lebanon During World War I

Some histories of the Great War emphasize the conflict in France and Belgium to such an extent that the Western Front, as it came to be known, was, in fact, World War I. By contrast, events occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean, other than the Allied military debacle at Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide, are given little attention. One of those episodes overlooked in most histories of the Great War was the devastating famine that occurred in Mount Lebanon.

Drawing on earlier research and interviews, the author brings together unused information and contemporary oral histories to tell the horror story that was the Mount Lebanon Famine. He offers perspectives that challenge many of the myths about this little-known catastrophe.