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beirut lite. The book tells of the author's struggle as a Lebanese who came to the U.S. as a child to find "home," and the culture shock she felt upon returning to Beirut to live there for a year. Now that I'm living in Beirut, only just beginning to learn Arabic, and without even one Beiruti friend, much less relative upon arrival, I found it difficult to sympathize with her challenges (by comparison, with a large network of extended family and old school friends, and arriving here without a fa
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