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PERSONAL ESSAY

‘Are you coming home for Christmas?’

December is coming along with ‘the season of returns.’ The same concerns arise and the realization is one: To be Lebanese is to be denied the right to project oneself, even in the near future.

‘Are you coming home for Christmas?’

(Credit: @oldbeiruthlebanon account)

It's been exactly two months since the Lebanon war started. Exactly two months since the sordid and surreal episode of beepers. No words can describe that day — the beginning of an ongoing deluge of violence. I've lost track of time by juggling...
It's been exactly two months since the Lebanon war started. Exactly two months since the sordid and surreal episode of beepers. No words can describe that day — the beginning of an ongoing deluge of violence. I've lost track of time by juggling...