Editorials:
Abaad and Current Challenges
Paul Salem

Where shall we begin?
Fares Abi Saab

Theme - The Fifieth anniversary of Lebanon's independence:
How "National" is independence
Ghassan Salame

How is Lebanon to be independent?
Antoine N. Messarra

Lebanon's sects and the difficult road to a unifying identity
Ahmad Baydoun

Notes on Lebanese nationalism
Paul Salem

The Phases of Lebanese ideology
Fares Sassine

The Crisis of democracy in Lebanon
Ghassan Tueni

Deconfessionalizing the call for deconfessionalization
Nawaf A. Salam

The Limits of civil society in Lebanon
Fadia Kiwan

Lebanon's political elites
Farid el-Khazen

Lebanon's Islamists: cumbersome inheritors of a weighty legacy
Dalal al-Bizri

Lebanon after the "death" of loyalty and opposition
Jahad al-Zayn

Development policy in Lebanon between past and future
Boutros Labaki

Studies:
The Middle eastern and Palestinian problems after the
"Gaza-Jericho First" agreement.
Samir Amin

The Arab-Israeli strategic balance of power: an introduction
Mahmoud Azmi

The Organization of African Unity between the Cold War
and regional and international changes
Adnan al-Sayyed Hussein

Book Reviews:
Alan Dieckhoff, The Invention of a Nation: Israel and Political 
Modernity.
Ghassan al-Izzi

Halim Barakat, The Arab World Society, Culture and State.
Adnan al-Sayyed Hussein

Documents
Chronology
Bibliography
Cartoons