Comments on: An inventory of Living, from Beyrouth http://news-lab.net/blog/2008/01/28/an-inventory-of-living-from-beyrouth/ News and stories from the Arab world, the Mediterranean and Europe, from the point of view of 20 women who met for the first time in November 2007, in Alexandria, Egypt Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:04:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: AH (London, UK) http://news-lab.net/blog/2008/01/28/an-inventory-of-living-from-beyrouth/comment-page-1/#comment-458 AH (London, UK) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:09:24 +0000 http://news-lab.net/blog/2008/01/28/an-inventory-of-living-from-beyrouth/#comment-458 I like these lists. I like knowing that you have a cat - I never asked you before, 'do you have a cat?'. Beirut seems like such a far away place to me you see, it's a place like a film, on the television, in history, in the papers. And in the middle of it all, there's you in a crappy petrol station mini-market at 3 am. I've been in crappy petrol station mini-markets in the early hours, usually after they've shut the actual shop and you have to get the man at the plexi-glass bullet-proof counter to go and get your packet of cornflakes and loo roll for you. So there you are. In your list is everything - in some parts it reinforces the news and the 'Beirut' that we get here, and then, with the other things, it makes it real. Good luck with the vitamins! I like these lists. I like knowing that you have a cat – I never asked you before, ‘do you have a cat?’. Beirut seems like such a far away place to me you see, it’s a place like a film, on the television, in history, in the papers. And in the middle of it all, there’s you in a crappy petrol station mini-market at 3 am. I’ve been in crappy petrol station mini-markets in the early hours, usually after they’ve shut the actual shop and you have to get the man at the plexi-glass bullet-proof counter to go and get your packet of cornflakes and loo roll for you. So there you are. In your list is everything – in some parts it reinforces the news and the ‘Beirut’ that we get here, and then, with the other things, it makes it real. Good luck with the vitamins!

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