Beirut has seen many armies and empires come and go, but the legacy
of this long history is not so much in surviving monuments as in
the quintessential Levantine spirit of the people. A commercial hub
since the days of the Phoenicians, it was a centre of learning
under the Romans, its law school preeminent in the Empire. Beirut
was the point of entry to the Levant for many Europeans and
Americans undertaking a Grand Tour or a pilgrimage to the Holy
Land, and visitors (whether their focus was piously Biblical or
more prosaic) recorded their impressions of this effervescent port
city where East rubs against West. A Beirut Anthology gathers the
choicest of these, from writers as diverse as Alphonse de Lamartine
and Mark Twain, providing a surprising and vivid glimpse behind the
veil of this elusive and alluring city.
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