The Mountain That Burned: Lebanon's 1840 Peasant Uprising
Long before the 1860 massacres or the civil war, Mount Lebanon saw a brutal uprising of Maronite peasants against their Druze feudal lords in 1840. This episode explores the revolt's rural roots, the role of Christian clergy like Bishop Tobia Aoun, the intervention of Egyptian and Ottoman forces, and how the uprising deepened sectarian divisions while also revealing class tensions that centuries of chroniclers have often ignored. Key figures include Emir Bashir Shihab II, who betrayed his own people, and the rebel leader Abu Samra Ghanem. The episode draws on French consul reports and local chronicles to reconstruct a forgotten moment when Lebanon's mountain peasants took history into their own hands.
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