Before reading some of the letters from Laura Marks, I tried to answer the questions about what comes to mind when I think of Beirut and Lebanon. I thought of the news, history, as well as stories I've heard from a friend of mine that is from Lebanon. Sadly, this is all I could come up with before reading.
Images: bombing, sand, death, blood
Words: war, kill, pain, threats, injury, pray, tourists, oil, fragile, religion, protest, strike
Sounds: BOOM
Facts: Middle East, Confessionalism, civil war, Rafik Hariri, Israel-Lebanon conflict
After reading Marks' letters, these views didn't change much. These are some of the things that really shocked and stood out to me in her letters.....
She talks about "A quiet day, other than two big bombs in Dahiyeh at 2:30 at night and another just now." wow.
"Lebanon has approximately 3.5 million people. On a per-capita basis, that means that as of Wednesday, the rough equivalent of 9/11 has happened here for eight days."
"I only learned today that almost half of the Lebanese dead are children. There's a picture going around of an Israeli girl writing on an Israeli rocket, 'To the children of Lebanon from the children of Isreal.' Well, children were buried in a mass grave in Tyr in the south today." She said how she can't believe this. I too cannot imagine such hatred.
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