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For Visitors from Abroad: Don’t Bother Trying to Make Sense of Lebanon!

Marc Saikali, 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Lebanon tourism visitors expatriates summer vacation

For everyone planning to spend their vacation in Lebanon, here is your survival guide to a country where nothing works, yet somehow everything does. First of all, getting to Lebanon is no small feat. Plane tickets cost so much, you might as well be booking a business-class trip to Mars. Let’s say you sold your house in France or Canada and ...

April 13, 1975: "A Day Engraved in Our Memory"

Elie Valluy - correspondant à Paris, 13/04 11:28 - Reading : 10 minute(s)

France Lebanon Civil War Expatriates

François Boustani remembers Sunday, April 13, 1975 — the day the Lebanese civil war began — with vivid clarity. “That day is etched in our memory,” recalls the cardiologist, who was in Zahleh, eastern Lebanon, at the time. “The phone rang that afternoon. My parents had friends over for lunch. It was my uncle, calling to warn my father ...

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