Elie Fares
HUFFINGTON POST - 11/15/201
When a friend told me past midnight to check the news about Paris, I
had no idea that I would be looking at a map of a city I love,
delineating locations undergoing terrorist attacks simultaneously. I
zoomed in on that map closer; one of the locations was right to where I
had stayed when I was there in 2013, down that same boulevard.
The
more I read, the higher the number of fatalities went. It was horrible;
it was dehumanizing; it was utterly and irrevocably hopeless. 2015 was
ending the way it started -- with terrorists attacks occurring in
Lebanon and France almost at the same time, in the same context of
demented creatures spreading hate and fear and death wherever they went.
I
woke up this morning to two broken cities. My friends in Paris who only
yesterday were asking what was happening in Beirut were now on the
opposite side of the line. Both our capitals were broken and scarred,
old news to us perhaps but foreign territory to them.
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