Life Quote by Anthony Shadid

“In the long evenings in west Beirut, there was time enough to consider where the core of the tragedy lay. In the age of…

— Robert Fisk

“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“This gruesome and absurd doorstep suicide symbolized for me the mood of Beirut at the end of 1983 and in early 1984—a mood of…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.”

— Sandra Chami Kassis

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me…

— Greg Kinnear

“Because Beirut was never just a city. It was an idea—an idea that meant something not only to the Lebanese but to the entire…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and…

— Louis Yako

“The people of the Mountain were more self-sustaining than the Beirutis. Most of them had modest pieces of land on which they grew vegetables.”

— Louis Farshee

“Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...”

— Hussein S. Hariri

“Our priority is still the liberation of our land and the protection of Lebanon from the Israeli threat.”

— Sayed Hassan Nasrallah