Word: beirutization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...press conference had been hastily arranged. The plan had been for Rice to leave for Beirut in an hour to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to discuss steps toward a ceasefire. Now, that trip would be cancelled. She had talked to Siniora, whom she described as ?depressed? and ?emotional? over what happened in the village of Qana.? Rice said, ?I called him and told him that I was not coming today because I felt very strongly that my work toard a ceasefire is really here, today.? Siniora, however, had made it clear in a televised address that...
...made clear that while they feel lucky to be alive, their haunting experiences in Lebanon have followed them home. "For the past five days, a feeling of constant guilt [has been] lingering in my subconscious," says Bdeir, who arrived in the U.S. last weekend. Bdeir was raised in Beirut, and left her mother and sisters behind. "I was in Lebanon when the war broke out, and the reason I feel guilty is that I escaped...
...Each evacuee was in Beirut for different reasons, but all of them were there for the same one- to speak on behalf of those who weren't so lucky. Some of them had seen firsthand how Beirut had recovered from the destruction left by Israel's last invasion in 1982 and the country's own civil war, only to be leveled once again. The city was readying for a tourist influx, says Lina Shehayeb, a Lebanese-American who was in Beirut for a family vacation. When Shehayeb heard the news that two Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped by Hizballah...
...Yasmin Hamidi, 25, the war was all she experienced on her first trip to Lebanon. Beirut's international airport was bombed on the day she arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi...
...evacuees are frustrated that the situation has not changed for the better in Lebanon. "The real story is the people who can't leave, the people left behind," says Stephen McInerney, 31, a resident from North Carolina who was in Beirut to work on his masters thesis in Middle East studies at the American University of Beirut before evacuating the country with the help of the American embassy. He has been talking to the press, writing letters and sending e-mails trying to get this message across to the media and government officials. Still, he admits, "I don't feel...