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Edward Nassar Museum: history, art, and a life story

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History for sale

The Abayd family have lived in their house in Moussaitbeh, Beirut, for seventy years. Two months ago they were given notice to leave and told that their house was to be knocked down. The day my friend and I visited them, or rather stumbled upon them, we had been walking around this area for the first time, and as usual we were battling with emotions. We truly appreciated the enormous beauty of some of the old houses, and struggled to come to terms with the fact that so many of them are being recklessly demolished.

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The biggest crime we could do is to forget Kanafani

A great leader and the founder of the Palestinian novel was killed today, thirty-nine years ago. Ghassan Kanafani and his young niece were brutally assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in broad daylight on July 8th 1972 in Beirut. At the age of 36, Ghassan Kanafani’s ideas, poetry, children’s books, novels and essays proved to be a threat to the Zionist regime.

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The broken promises of US-Arab relations

Fairweather friends: the broken promises of US-Arab relations

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Telling the story of the Civil War

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