SAVORING BEIRUT
Apr 21, 2020
3 minutes
As told to Lindsey Tramuta
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI
I WAS BORN in Houston to a Lebanese father and an American mother from Texas, but we moved to Lebanon when I was a baby. I spent all of my formative years here. To escape the turmoil of the civil war (1975 to 1990), my family and I sought refuge in Baskinta, a village northeast of Beirut, at the foot of Mount Sannine, for about five years. To this day, I think people are still healing from wartime.
At 22, I dropped out of the American University
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