A young woman reflects on her complex relationship with her home city of Beirut... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Diary Dispatches from Beirut, by Mariam Tell above.
There are words one often associates with a hometown, and I have come to characterize my relationship to the city of Beirut, sexy and gritty though she may be, with words of distrust: abandon; leave behind; shock; shake; destroy...
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