di Sergio Attanasio Beirut, April/May 2021 From a certain perspective, Lebanon sums up Middle Eastern dynamics and problems. From another point of view, the Lebanese civil war did not end with the Taif accords. The general amnesty given to former militias’ leaders and combatants did not put an end to hostilities between factions and sects, […]

di Sergio Attanasio The destinies of Lebanon, Palestine and Israel seem so closely linked that thinking about the vicissitudes of the Crusades, and the Crusader Christian kingdoms, is almost automatic. Although the Nakba (Catastrophe) displaced more than 700,000 Palestinians (about the Arab population of pre-war Palestine) and scattered refugees throughout the Arab world, Lebanon more […]

Articolo di Sergio Attanasio Foto di Lynn Kseibi Here the 1993 comes and the American Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran publishes the second part of his “the Prophet”, a book of prose poetry fables. This second part “The Garden of the Prophet” enshrines the infamous poem “Pity the Nation” – manifesto against the corruption of soul […]