resilience

lebanese politics

I Was at a Concert While Forty Men Were Trapped in a Tunnel Eighty Kilometers Away. I Am Not Sorry.

What a traffic jam between Faqra and Mzaar reminded me about how humans survive war. I have been sitting in this car for forty minutes. The road between Faqra and Mzaar is ten minutes on a normal day. Tonight is the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The

resilience

Resilient? Lebanese? I Doubt!

A confession about the most overused word in Lebanese public discourse. Congratulations. You survived another year in Lebanon. The international community would like to call this resilience. We would like to call it Thursday. Every year, after every war, explosion, currency collapse, bank failure, and government paralysis, the same sentence