than with fellow Sunnite or Muslim Arabs elsewhere. Here again, an idea of nationalism had emerged which had sufficient credit to make it valid. In the Lebanese context, however, it became ready cover for something more archaic, which was essentially Greek Orthodox particularism. Prof. Salibi remarks on the beginnings of Saadeh's party in the 1930s: "[A]mong its first members were students and young graduates of the American University of Beirut." This early party was "mainly Greek Orthodox and Protestants with some Shi'ites and Druzes... ." In Lebanon as a whole the party was not popular. "Christians were generally opposed to their Syrian unionism, while Moslems were suspicious of their reservations with regard to pan-Arabism. The Lebanese authorities were able to suppress them without difficulty." See also Antoun Saadeh 1958 Lebanon crisis Lebanese Civil War Lebanese National Movement Mountain War (Lebanon) Lebanese Communist Party Anti-Zionism Secularism in Lebanon Syrian Social Nationalist Party – Intifada Wing Notes References Citations Sources Charif, Maher, Rihanat al-nahda fi'l-fikr al-'arabi, Damascus, Dar al-Mada, 2000 Hourani, Albert, La Pensée Arabe et l'Occident (French translation of Arab Thought in the Liberal Age) Irwin, Robert, "An Arab Surrealist". The Nation, 3 January 2005, 23–24, 37–38. Salibi, K. S., The Modern History of Lebanon (New York: Praeger 1965) Salibi, Kamal, A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, University of California, Berkeley, 1988; reprint: London, I.B. Tauris, 1998 Seale, Patrick, Asad: the Struggle for the Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988 External links SSNP website SSNP School Tahawolat Magazine Articles about society and culture Attacks attributed to the SSNP Articles containing video clips Political parties in Syria Syncretic political movements Political parties established in 1932 Axis of Resistance