Lebanon Agonistes

In 1982, an unusual sight appeared on the Mediterranean horizon. Like the death ship in Star Wars, a World War…

A clear sign of madness

In December 1968, Israeli commandos destroyed 13 aircraft of Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, at Beirut airport. Why? One…

The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who…

I just took the Métro up to the 17th arrondissement for a party to welcome the new editor of the…

As a young American infantry officer in London awaiting his D-Day orders, Gardner Botsford met an English couple – a…

When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and…

In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered…

“The facts are simple enough. If we had left the olive groves and the cotton fields and the oil wells…

Trafalgar Studios, London, 28 Sept – 10 Dec 2005 The day that Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature…