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Lebanese still reeling from the trauma of Syrian occupation

The story of an experience that intoxicated and trampled Lebanon from 1990 to 2005, and even after.

Lebanese still reeling from the trauma of Syrian occupation

A defaced statue of Hafez al-Assad with heels attached to it (Credit: Photo Myriam Boulos)

That night in August 1989, he was not even two days old when the Syrian army, then under the orders of Hafez al-Assad, shelled the Ashrafieh neighborhood where he had just been born.He was not even two days old when, in the blink of an eye, the room...
That night in August 1989, he was not even two days old when the Syrian army, then under the orders of Hafez al-Assad, shelled the Ashrafieh neighborhood where he had just been born.He was not even two days old when, in the blink of an eye, the room...