The day before yesterday, we bid farewell to my daughter, who had spent three days among us. She said that this visit is a compensation for the Christmas visit that she will spend, God willing, at the house of her older brother, who was pushed out of Lebanon, along with his family, by the Beirut ...
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A Solution in Our Hands!
When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting ...
Read moreA New Day
I went up to the roof of the building I live in. The day was almost far spent. My intention was not to watch the setting sun, which I love, in its rising and its setting, but rather to check the water in our tank. This is our state in the land of water; we ...
Read moreA Word to a Visiting Emigrant
One does not welcome the household people in their own house. I do not know how many years it has been since you left Lebanon. However, I am sure that you know that it is as you had left it, rather, if we mention our economic collapse, the epidemic, and the explosion of Beirut in ...
Read moreThe Elections Are Tomorrow
I have a friend who repeats, during the election season, that he and his father go to the ballot box, neither of them knowing for whom the other will vote. If you ask him for an explanation, he will answer you: “this is a personal matter that is none of anyone’s business, not anyone”. How ...
Read moreThe Pope's Visit
Can Lebanon, which is attending to the affairs of the parliamentary elections and their internal and external conflicts, receive a stronger blow than the postponement of the visit of His Holiness the Pope of Rome, which was scheduled for next June? The visit, which was postponed for "health reasons", was an explicit message to the ...
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“On the Footsteps of Christ”
It is the title of a Lebanese documentary by “Philip Araktinji” that was shown by a local channel on Friday, about a trip to Lebanese places that have been “visited by Christ”. Has He really visited them? I believe He has visited them through the “Gospel of the Word”. So, I am not discussing, here, ...
Read moreThe Remedy of Lebanon
I was brought up to the Lebanon, with which I am content, in the regions of Mazraa Beirut and Bourj Hammoud districts. Both regions were open to the Lebanon of diversity. I was born in “Mazraa” (literally: the farm). I left it as a five-year old child, and grew up in “Bourj” (literally: the tower). ...
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