
you can’t go home again – 1960s Lebanon
I came late to the party in Lebanon and to the wrong address. I was born in the 1960s when Beirut was a flourishing cosmopolitan city with an exciting touch of the exotic, but I grew up as it fell apart in the 1970s and the 1980s. Not that I would have known much about those halcyon days. My parents and I, swiftly followed by my sister, slept in one room in a small apartment a minute’s walk away from […]
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