From #Paris to #Beirut: on the privilege of shock and the right to heal
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Pencils and flowers are laid down in front of the French embassy in Berlin on January 10, 2015, in solidarity with the victims of the terror attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. AFP/DPA/Rainer Jensen Pencils and flowers are laid down in front of the French embassy in Berlin on January 10, 2015, in solidarity with the victims of the terror attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. AFP/DPA/Rainer Jensen
In the past three years since I first moved to Lebanon as yet another French journalist, I have come to learn the shared anguish stemming from acts of #violence that can shake a country. I have grieved with the Lebanese, and shared the sorrow of Palestinians and Syrians as (...)
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