Pamela Cooper: Campaigner for Victims of War – Obituary

In the summer of 1982, while Lebanon was under Israeli attack as it is now, Pamela Cooper worked tirelessly helping…

Lebanon Agonistes

In 1982, an unusual sight appeared on the Mediterranean horizon. Like the death ship in Star Wars, a World War…

In December 1968, Israeli commandos destroyed 13 aircraft of Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, at Beirut airport. Why? One…

The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who…

I just took the Métro up to the 17th arrondissement for a party to welcome the new editor of the…

As a young American infantry officer in London awaiting his D-Day orders, Gardner Botsford met an English couple – a…

When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and…

In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered…

“The facts are simple enough. If we had left the olive groves and the cotton fields and the oil wells…