- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beirut Quotes
A city remembered through war, denial, and return.
These Beirut quotes hold real historical weight, referencing the 1982 invasion across Lebanon's northern border and the civil war that families believed, wrongly, would be temporary. It's sober reflection, not sensationalism.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.
- Conquerors
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- Nov 07, 2020
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
- Frail
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020