eCMES: Reviews

Rami Khouri: New Challenges Facing a New American Administration, A View from within the Middle East

February 27, 2009

During the summer of 2008, two months in lackluster Amman, Jordan, drove me to take a last minute flight
to Beirut, Lebanon. I figured I would seize the opportunity to allow my eyes a break from the monotony of sandstone and flee a city without walking paths. One of the most memorable views during my stay in Lebanon was from the campus of the American University of Beirut (AUB). Steps leading down to tennis courts traveled further to the Paris Parkway that runs along the Mediterranean Sea. But it would be dishonest for me to claim that the spectacular view of the “Roman” or “Middle...

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The Syrian Bride

September 12, 2005

 

 

Syrian brideIn a village on a hillside in the ruggedly beautiful yet disputed lands of the Golan Heights, a Druze family is preparing for a wedding, and preparing to lose a beloved daughter and sister forever. Mona’s wedding day is bittersweet, for she knows that before the...

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