An Outsider’s Long Goodbye
I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened in Beirut on August 4th is profoundly not my story.
Annia Ciezadlo
Annia Ciezadlo spent 15 years based in Beirut and Baghdad where as a freelance foreign correspondent, she reported on politics and civilian life. She was a special correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Baghdad and The New Republic in Beirut, and her writing on culture, politics and the Middle East has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Granta, and The Nation. The New York Times called her memoir, Day of Honey, “among the least political, and most intimate and valuable, to have come out of the Iraq war.”