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The only book of his that I've actually read all the way through was The Structures of Everyday Life. It's part of a larger series on early modern Europe that focuses on economic and material aspects. Its a big book, but its a very easy read. A grad student should be able to breeze through it, pick up fun facts and trivia, but also being to see patterns and themes with ease. It reads like a survey lecture taught by your favorite professor. The way he works specific points into a broader theory is very fluid and helpful if you yourself ever have to write history papers on a grad level.

To really get a feel for Braudel's theory and the Annales school as a whole, I think a bit more reading would be necessary, but just reading the one text would be a great way to get a sense of his style and tone.

I've spent some time in Lebanon and I'm writing my honours thesis on the Lebanese Civil War, so I can probably help you quite a bit!

Robert Fisk - Pity the Nation: Robert Fisk was the one of the first foreign journalists to go into the camp during the massacre, so his first hand account of it in this book is pretty important.

Lucile Volk - Martyrs and Memorials: This is a great little book representative of the more modern historiographic type regarding Lebanon, I'm sure there's something about Sabra & Shatila in there.

Fawazz Trablousi - A History of Modern Lebanon This is the text you should read to give yourself some quick context on the conflict as well as understand the economic and social aspects behind the broader conflict.

For articles and such I would recommend checking out JSTOR, does your university have access to it? I wrote a (terrible) paper years ago on whether Sharon was legally culpable for the massacre so I'll see if I can dig it out for you and see what sources I used.

The Lebanese civil war was shockingly complicated and the 1982 invasion was only a facet of it. If you have any questions or want some clarification, feel free to PM me and I'll help as best I can.

Cheers!

I think the best way to go about learning historiography is to read about its history. There are numerous works out there, most lauding or lamenting some change or another. I think that Georg Iggers' Historiography in the Twentieth Century is as good a work as any for a solid background.

Paris - Capital of Modernity may be of some help to you. I don't know, this was on the reading list for an historiography class but I didn't really read it because it wasn't my thing.