Tucked away in the rocky hills of southern Lebanon is the town of Qana. It is a place where, while buying a bottle of juice in a tiny store, a conservatively dressed Shia woman and her children may come up and ask where you are from, and then tell you about their uncle in Dearborn […]
Taking Stock Of Our Lives
There are places in this world that urge you to pause, and Lebanon’s Qadisha Valley is one. As the day ends over this historic landscape — birthplace of one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet — you look around and sense that the sun has set here for thousands of years, well […]