6/9/2023 0 Comments House of stone shadid![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Anthony Shadid revisited his ancestral village of Jedeidat Marjayoun in southern Lebanon in August 2007, he had found bayt, Arabic for house. You see, I have not always been a man who kept his promises, and I have never been the type to stay home (Excerpt from House of Stone) What I felt was bayt, and it led me to make a promise to myself, a commitment that I still cannot believe I honored after all these years. Writer and blogger Marina Chamma, also an LSE Alum, reviews Shadid’s House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East (Houghton Mufflin Harcourt, 2012). Before award-winning journalist Anthony Shadid died in February while reporting on the crisis in Syria, he wrote a memoir about returning to the town in Lebanon from which his relatives immigrated to the US at the turn of the 20th century and rebuilding the house which they left behind. ![]()
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