Early in 1975 one of my sons was standing at a municipal bus stop on the Corniche, waiting for a bus to take him home to our area, called Musaitbeh, after a long day at school—the American Community School of Beirut. Beside him on the curb a Lebanese youth also waited. The two of them […]
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In my book there is a story called “John and Elena.” Elena was a pretty young Lebanese woman, a friend of ours. John was an American Marine from Minnesota. The two of them were the poignant center of my account of an event that shook both Lebanon and America and has not ended even yet. […]
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Jim Clancy was in Beirut the other day. This is the same Jim Clancy who lived in a hotel in East Beirut back in the 1980s during the civil war in Lebanon. He was a CNN correspondent then, a good one. In fact, he just recently retired from CNN, and he was in Lebanon to […]
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