Lebanon and Beirut:
Articles on the history and geography of Beirut by May and Michael Davie.

Population studies:
Women's education, economic activity and fertility: relationship re-examined , by Prern C. Saxena and Habbouba Y. Aoun
    (From the Digital Documentation Center at AUB)

(See also the section on geology)

Maps

• 15^th Century Map of the Arabic World
• Detailed 1:200 000 maps of Lebanon (in Arabic and English)
• Maps of Beirut (from the 1960's).
• Shell's street map of Beyrouth from the 1960's
• Map of the Israeli occupation zone in South Lebanon (January 1998)
• Map of Beirut of 1876
• Satellige imagery of Ras Beirut, 1993
• Simple Contour map of Lebanon
• Good general map of Lebanon (from the CIA)
• Good general map of the Middle East (from the CIA)
• Small (24K) and large (748K) LandSat Maps of the Middle East. These maps are topographical maps used to select appropriate LandSat images of the area.
• Middle East maps from the CIA (and extensive set of simple, but good maps.

• Water Resources in the Middle East : a bibliography
• Center for Environmental Studies and Resource Management

• High resolution radar image of a portion of Lebanon north and east of Beirut.
• An HRPT picture of the east Mediterranean coast from a weather satellite
• Explanation of the HRPT image
• A color image of the whole Middle East from deep space
• Search for photographs of Lebanon taken from the Space Shuttle.

External resources

• The Arab World Geographer
• MAPS of Beirut

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