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Xan Rice

Xan Rice is Features Editor at the New Statesman. Follow him on Twitter at @xanrice

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Sunday, December 27, 2015
The Road From Damascus
Turn your back on the Mediterranean in Beirut, drive east along the highway, and you’re soon in the foothills of Mount Lebanon, the range that runs along the country’s spine. As the road gets steeper, the grey urban sprawl gives way to conifer forest and the summer apartments of wealthy city-...
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