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Article: Beirut', the city that moves me. (Travel).
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
- Author:
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WHENEVER I HEAR the destination "Beirut" announced by the stewardess as we are about to land, my heart leaps with joy and excitement, and I am overwhelmed with a sensation of identity and belonging. I look out the window at the city below, which has changed so much and yet so little over the years, and I see the same flat roofs, the same mountains rising from the sea, the many sites of demolition and reconstruction from the seventeen years of nightmarish war (1975-92), all of which makes me love Beirut even more in its despair, like a mother tending her sick child. My heart palpitates with emotion for this country, which has never ceased to amaze me with its capacity to ...
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