These hymns and poems were written between January 1975 and August
1976, mostly during the first year and a half of what has
ironically been called the "Lebanese Civil War." The poetry and
hymns in this book are an emotionally-charged document that
reflects the state of mind of a young Lebanese poet madly in love
with Beirut and Lebanon during the seventies when Lebanon was an
oasis of fun and was bursting with creativity and positive energy
on all fronts: literary, social, economic and political. Beirut was
the major capital of literary production in the Middle East. The
poetry in this book is a song for Lebanon. It is a celebration of
its glory and endurance and a call for the Lebanese to unite. It is
a cry in the desert of discontent against those who thought that
destroying the previous society would bring about a new age of
contentment, only to prove that their vision was wrong and that
they were but a "false alarm" that simply caused unimaginable
death, destruction, disappointment and sorrow. These hymns are both
a praise for what Beirut stood for and represented in the minds and
consciousness of the generation of Arab intellectuals and at the
same time, they are a eulogy for the city that the Lebanese were
unable to protect and preserve because of the many who took it for
granted and others who allowed their jealousy and bitter ideologies
to put the first nail in its coffin.
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