The Beirut of 2020 is the same city which endured Ottoman military ferocity, Allied blockade and locusts more than a hundred years ago. Robert Fisk tells the people's story
Lebanon is facing corruption, bankruptcy, unemployment and hunger, but the country was beleaguered a century ago toohe pages are so fragile that I turn them with infinite care, blowing apart those which adhere to each other lest they tear. An unknown hand – almost a century ago, I think, when my book was new — gently repaired with paste the final page of Father Antoine Yammine’s frightful account of’s Great Hunger.
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