In Lebanon, We Took Pride in Our Resilience. Not Anymore.: Joumana Haddad / NY Times

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"Nowhere is safe; no one is secure. This is not life. It is an excruciating wait for the possibility of death."

"We, too, used to value this quality in ourselves, whether we bragged about it openly or secretly inside. 'We snap right back to our feet,' we used to tell ourselves and others. 'Look at us rebounding.' But more and more, I hear people speak of Lebanese resilience with disdain, even anger."

"It is time we pull those heads of ours out of the sand of resilience and work together to build a real democratic, secular state."

Ms. Haddad is an author and journalist and a former candidate for the Lebanese Parliament.

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