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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

Rabih Alameddine

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Ein Phönix, Beirut scheint sich immer wieder aus der Asche zu ziehen, erfindet sich neu, wurde in seiner über 7.000-jährigen Geschichte mehrmals erobert, doch er überlebt, indem er zu dem wird, was seine Eroberer wünschen, und seine eigenwillige Persönlichkeit behält.

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