Comments on: The small talk of war https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/ An outsider's commentary on Lebanese culture and society. Rules not included. Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 By: ian alexander https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-14232 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:50:37 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1361#comment-14232 Good Blog Mrs Dargham.

]]> By: Georgia Paterson Dargham https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-13846 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:07:43 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1361#comment-13846 I’m delighted to hear from a long-term reader. Returning to a home that isn’t quite home any more prompts some kind of reverse culture shock in all of us, and no doubt the Lebanese feel it even more strongly than we lukewarm Brits.
Thank you for commenting, it is an honour to have thoughtful regular readers, and does me good to know you are out there!

]]> By: Georgia Paterson Dargham https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-13833 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:54:15 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1361#comment-13833 Thank you :)

]]> By: htj https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-13818 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:06:32 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1361#comment-13818 I have been a reader of your blog for almost a year now, and I have enjoyed every one of your posts, photos, and comments. For that, I would like to say thank you.

After reading “but others had become settled abroad and for them Lebanon became the land of the olden days, land of their rose-tinted childhood”, I couldn’t help but smile.

I have been living in the US a little over 30 years now. In those 30-odd years, I have made only a handful of short trips to Lebanon. Lately, I have been contemplating the idea of moving back: teaching, starting a business, etc… my way of giving something back.

“their attachment to it is unbelievably, irrationally and touchingly deep.” I don’t think anybody has ever put it in such a way before. You are right. It is unbelievable and irrational.

I often wonder if I can live in Lebanon and preserve my sanity. Your posts, along with a few other non-lebanese bloggers’, paint a excellent picture of what it’s like for a westerner to live in Lebanon: the wonderful, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So I’ll keep reading and learning, trying to determine if my relocation is a good idea.

Thanks again for the wonderful posts… and congratulations.

]]> By: Chrissy https://gingerbeirut.com/the-small-talk-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-13696 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:32:28 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1361#comment-13696 Beautiful words. This is what I have been looking for someone to explain to me.

And congratulations :)

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