Here's the slide from my AUB talk that the Daily Star reporter was alluding to. I took this photo in late Feb 2005 - it's the graffiti around Martyrs' Square (later Liberty Square) in downtown Beirut, where people were commemmorating the Valentine's Day 2005 car-bomb assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Can you see the faint writing, in English, right at the bottom of the photo?
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| "To be or not to be now is the time." |
And here's another example of Lebanon-related "to be or not to be" rhetoric: Walid Jumblatt (this was before he broke with the March 14 grouping)
saying a rally was absolutely crucial to the existential future of Lebanon.
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| "Notre combat c’est “être ou ne pas être.” No hyperbole or anything. |
Flew home from glorious Beirut yesterday. Sigh.
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