One of the advantages of living at Mafraq Sharooq in Musaitbeh, Beirut, was the presence of Mustapha’s grocery just around the corner. It was not a modern supermarket, not the brightest, cleanest, most organized store in West Beirut, which is exactly what was so nice about it. Mustapha Kais, the owner and manager and […]
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Grace Kusta writes a personal traumatic experience, enabling us to see both the stress of life in Lebanon during the civil war and how she coped with it. It was the summer of 1985, I had scheduled my annual vacation from work, planning to go spend a week in Cyprus, an island that is […]
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(Last night I finished this article, though I intended to post something else, a cheerful guest blog, on my website today. This morning I woke to the news of another savage terror attack in Brussels. Now both my reader and I are horrified by the descriptions of headless bodies, people who suddenly have no legs, […]
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Watercolor painting a gift to me from Tara Dunn I made a mistake in my book. Let’s just say that I was wrong. In the epilogue of In Borrowed Houses I said that the little stone house around which my whole story revolves would outlive all of us. My actual words were: “It will […]
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