Lebanon Quote by Greg Kinnear

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather,…

— Amin Maalouf

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

— Reem Acra

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

— Yasmine Hamdan

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green…

— Tony Shalhoub

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent.…

— Hisham Matar

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

— Hisham Matar

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat…

— Greg Kinnear

My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is…

— Ziad Doueiri

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

— Sam Esmail