Esto de vivir en el Medio Oriente definitivamente tiene sus peculiaridades. Me encontré una frase de Robert Fisk, quizá el corresponsal de guerra más conocido y polémico quien escribe para el londinense The Independent y que por cierto vive en Beirut desde hace muchos años:
"I love the life here, but the Lebanese are dangerous people. They're hospitable, gracious, cosmopolitan, learned, yet they can rip themselves to pieces in a civil war and kill 150,000 people. Foreigners come here, they smile and Lebanon smiles back, and they don't spot when she stops smiling. Between "no problem" and haraam ["for shame"] there's about five seconds."
Fisk, Robert "Man of War" en: the guardian weekly, April 24, 2008, p.25-27
