Word: beirutization
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...born in Damascus, Syria, lived until the age of nine in Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan, moved to Vienna, Austria and came to Harvard for college...
...getting drawn in is easy for someone raised in exile communities in the Middle East and Europe for most of her life. Abu-Ghaida spent her early years in Beirut, Lebanon. That means having a heightened sense of both ethno-religious identity and the chaos that accompanies...
...entered Kuwait City with Saudi troops. "It was impossible to compare the destruction in Iraq with that in Kuwait -- and not conclude that Iraq fared much better," says Marlowe. The gulf war is not the first conflict that Marlowe has covered for TIME. Since 1989 she has lived in Beirut, where she reported the last throes of the Lebanese civil war. Born in Whittier, Calif., and educated at UCLA, the Sorbonne and Oxford, Lara previously worked in the Middle East for American and European newspapers and as an associate producer in Paris for CBS's 60 Minutes...
Every city has a kind of evil twin that looks like Beirut...
...question has dimensions that are both social and personal. In Freudian terms, the law is supposed to perform the function of the superego, policing the wild and violent id. The Beirut principle goes to work when the id takes over from the superego and puts on a blue uniform, when authority goes wild...