A legless Beirut street man embodies Lebanon stripped of its limbs by war

Evidence

One afternoon in March, I saw an old man with gray hair. The man stood horizontally, as only he could. He had no legs, but two muscular arms and a torso tied to a beige skateboard that moved him about. He was a man, but at that moment, he was a metaphor for a nation stripped of its limbs and a people making do and moving about with whatever they had left. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1210

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• FICTION: The legless man on a skateboard as ‘a nation stripped of its limbs’ is a vivid image for grounding a character or scene depicting post-war survival.