Is Lebanon broken?

2024-04-15    

There is a song by Fairouz, our beloved national icon and one of the most celebrated Arab singers of all time, that was part of the soundtrack of my childhood in New Zealand and Australia during Lebanon’s civil war, which wracked the country from 1975 to 1990. I understood the power of the words that would bring my parents to tears before I knew their meaning. In “Nassam Alayna al Hawa,” Fairouz implores the breeze to carry her home before she grows so old in a foreign place that her homeland can no longer recognize her.

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