Using unique sources to highlight the daily lives of the young men and women of Lebanon's youth politics, this study traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations from the 1920s to 1950s to reveal how their distinct type of politics and populism would play a role in the making of modern Lebanon. 'Baun brings unique detail and differentiation to the history of youth politics in Lebanon. As a corrective to widespread assumptions, he argues that conflicts between movements were not exclusively the product of sectarianism. Violence was triggered by extraneous factors and turned sectarian because of divisive practices and language learned under colonial rule.' Peter Wien, University of Maryland