A few years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, I heard an interview on the BBC with a Lebanese woman from Beirut that has stayed with me for 30 years. She was asked if the country had healed the deep divisions that fuelled the war. “They are buried,” she said. “But if you squeeze me very tight, it’s all still there, deep inside me.”
Her words instilled in me a formative awareness that no matter how dormant grievances are,
