Welcome to Hell

An ode to Lebanon’s resilience & to its people’s rebellion.

My home country is mostly perceived by Westerners as a land of war and desolation. That‘s not totally out of place: for 15 years, Lebanon was plunged in one of the most disastrous civil war in recent history.

100 000 people lost their lives, close to a million — or two-thirds of the population at the time —…