Word: beirutization
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Esdaile is one of several University affiliates who remains in Beirut, including some who were not known to be in Lebanon when ISOS was first given a list of names by Harvard administrators...
...Thursday morning we awoke to the news that Israeli aircraft had attacked Beirut International Airport at 6 a.m. that morning. My uncle told our entire family we had to get out that day or risk being trapped by an Israeli attack. We were going to my uncle’s newly built house high in the Shouf Mountains...
Israel’s targeting of civilian infrastructure and air and sea blockade had trapped us. We also found out that Israel had shelled a residential area of Beirut; something Hezbollah had promised would result in its shelling of Haifa...
...friends know that we were okay. While at the Internet cafe, I got a call from the [Harvard] Study Abroad office. [The woman on the phone] told us that to get out of the country we had to get to a hotel in the northern suburbs of Beirut in an hour...
...essentially] been asked to drive in to a city [that was] being hit on roads that were being [h]it. We asked taxis in the town if they would take us, but [were] told that they would not go to [Beirut] for any price. Not knowing how we would get back to Beirut, we rushed back to the house to pack...