11/16/2022 0 Comments Keep your mind in hell and despair not![]() Laughter is seemingly meant to stage hope in a truer and far more terrifying way. And like the Lebanese and with them, one laughs, one laughs because there is nothing else to do. After the excitement comes the agony, and with the agony the disenchantment, the questions, the what if’s… One tries to find his own comfort zone, and since modern history is hardly a candidate for this, there is always the uproarious humor, the extravagant laughter and intense feeling of uncertainty that Lebanon produces. The truth is that Lebanon is an endless supplier of intellectual pornography that is consumed just as avidly.īut there are other phases too. Being a journalist or a writer in or about the land of Amin Maalouf, Nadine Labaki and Hassan Nasrallah, is something that always begins with great excitement and one can hear young correspondents growing intensely frantic over terminology such as “war-torn”, “conflicted”, “restless”. Anyone who has been a journalist in the second Lebanese republic, knows well, to paraphrase the late Samir Kassir, that this republic has proved to be as pusillanimous as the first. It demands too much from those who ever want to love it. Sometimes one would think that Lebanon is too demanding. ![]()
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