Beirut, Forgive Us: Memoirs

Beirut and its mountains, beaches, food, music and drugs. Beirut, Forgive Us, spanning from 1994 to the present day, brings Beirut to life in all its glory and contradictions and is filled with personal anecdotes of my life there: a place where, in spite of the pervasive desire for hope and the resilience of its people, still bears deep scars from the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli invasion of 2006-a place where plastic surgery and AK 47s live side by side and nightclubs are situated on rooftops in order to avoid car bombs. "Lebanon was, and always will be, schizophrenic"