Colin Sheridan: To live in Beirut is an act of love
The beating heart of Lebanon, Beirut is a city rife with contradictions, cruelty, and despair — yet to those who’ve spent time there, its beauty is unparalleled
Flames and smoke rise over the remains of destroyed buildings after the Israeli airstrike in central Beirut last Thursday Picture: Bilal Hussein/AP
"Beirut is a woman, storms feed at her fingers.” — From “Letters to an Israeli soldier,” Mahmoud Darwish & Muin Baso, Beirut, 1982
Having spent a reasonable amount of my adult life both in Lebanon and its capital city Beirut, there are only two things I am unequivocally certain of.
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