A tale of a fractured nation 7’ read
Lebanon has been referred to as “God’s paradise on earth”, “The Swiss of the east” and “The country of cedars”. Known by many names, described by numerous authors featured in uncountable books starting with the “Epic of Gilgamesh” that sang about its mountains and its cedars. But surely its most accurate depiction is “The Phoenix” that rises every time from its ashes, beginning with the survival of the tyrannical rule of dozens of empires, by overcoming the siege and the hunger from 1915 to 1918 through an endless struggle to finally gain independence in 1943, and certainly enduring a devastating civil war that wreaked havoc on the struggling nation, it seems like one thing is true, Lebanon and its people always finds a way. Perhaps, this time around this “legendary bird” is in desperate need to rise from the abyss again, from the depth of its collapse. 30
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