Lebanon’s civil war forged a fractured national identity that mirrored its ruins

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It was the late 1980s, and Lebanon was gripped by the final stages of an existential unmaking. It would never be the same, and the war that shattered its people forged its new fractured national identity. An identity that had disintegrated from within, and which mirrored the decimated buildings and broken souls limping on the outside. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1209