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More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments
Early in Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir, Jean Said Makdisi recounts a dinner party in Beirut during the nascent stages of Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war. The distant thud of shelling punctuates the evening, refuting one guest’s optimism that the latest
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