Phrase by 'Rabih Alameddine'
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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.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistAlways , History , Whatever , Phoenix
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistRacism , Yes , Nationalism , Soccer
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistGod , English , Allah , Pray
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistMe , Short , City , Joke
My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistWorld , Father , Together , Football
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistMusic , Moment , Game , Dance
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistGreat , Literature , Cute , Upset
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistBecause , Read , Were , Taught
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistSchool , Breaks , English , Speak
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
Author: Rabih Alameddine - Lebanese ArtistPeople , Know , How , Country
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