Age Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of…

— Anthony Shadid

“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

“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

“A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity.”

— Carolyn Brown

“When an Influential and Prosperous man loves a woman, it's very beautiful!”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“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

“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

“Aziz was that rare type of man a woman could love without losing her self-respect.”

— Elif Shafak

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“They’re about a woman whose beauty is like a rare flower. There is a man who has a great love for her, a love…

— Adam Johnson

“Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore our vanity,…

— Julie Klassen

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