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...Hamra are sitting around makeshift coffee shops waiting for news of the fighting. "We are all supporting the Lebanese army here," says Marwan Zaatar, 33. "These people [in Fatah al-Islam] are not true Muslims. They are a gang of terrorists." That sums up the general mood. There is tension on the front lines, but local Lebanese are in good spirits. It's been a very noisy...
...mortar with salt, olive oil, and spices. Harissa is one of the foundations of all North African cooking, and it’s excellent at Baraka Café. You’d be well-advised to order harissa alone as a meze ($3.50), and forgo the Karentika. The Zaatar Coca ($4.50)—a hand-stretched bread, grilled over a fire, then sprinkled with herbs and piled with fantastically sweet caramelized onions—is also a must-order...
...before. In 1970, when Assad was Defense Minister, he prevented the Syrian air force from coming to the aid of Arafat's commandos in Jordan. During the 1975-76 civil war in Lebanon, Assad ordered his army to help Christian militiamen obliterate the Palestinian refugee camp of Tel Zaatar in Beirut, killing 3,000 Palestinians. When Assad failed to have Arafat deposed at a P.L.O. central committee meeting in August (Arafat actually received a nearly unanimous vote of confidence), Assad decided to resort to force...
...Palestinians." He pauses and runs his hand through his glossy black hair. Like many Lebanese Christians, the President does not consider that Lebanon ever had a civil war. He mentions two great disasters of the 1975-76 war, the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp at Tel Zaatar and an equally horrifying massacre at Karantina. Then he continues: "Now it is much more difficult. We have foreign armies here: the Israelis, the Syrians and the P.L.O., always the P.L.O. It has been a year of 'to be or not to be.' We have to face two very strong...
...sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim forces during the civil war. "Every place I've lived is gone," he says. "Next time we want to go to Palestine...