'Beirut Fragments' captures the horror Israel keeps inflicting on Lebanon
Submitted by Belen Fernandez on Tue, 10/13/2026 - 07:16 Jean Said Makdisi's reissued memoir recounts bombardment, siege and civilian resistance in scenes painfully familiar from Gaza and Israel's renewed assault on Lebanon Two women walk through a West Beirut street devastated by Israeli shelling during the siege of the city on 24 July 1982 (Dominique Faget/AFP) Off Sometime in the autumn of 2000, when I was a sophomore at Columbia University in New York, I was browsing the shelves of the univer
Submitted by Belen Fernandez on Tue, 10/13/2026 - 07:16 Jean Said Makdisi's reissued memoir recounts bombardment, siege and civilian resistance in scenes painfully familiar from Gaza and Israel's renewed assault on Lebanon Two women walk through a West Beirut street devastated by Israeli shelling during the siege of the city on 24 July 1982 (Dominique Faget/AFP) Off Sometime in the autumn of 2000, when I was a sophomore at Columbia University in New York, I was browsing the shelves of the univer
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