Ayşe BöhürlerYeni Şafak Newspaper Columnist
Beirut, the site of Judgement Day…
It seems these days we will keep singing Fairouz’s song “Li Beirut,” which starts with “A greeting from my heart.”
While depicting the city’s atmosphere which changed with civil war, she says the city tastes like fire and smoke. Li Beirut is the song that best describes the atmosphere of the city which has experienced 15 years of civil war, whose every street has been used as a position for militias, which has bullet-riddled buildings, and where assassinations and murders are unaccounted
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