0:00 Intro

0:51 Finding the castle

14:29 Refugee influx

28:41 David Saad

47:57 Sensitivity

54:25 Q&A

1:08:05 Relics that survived

We're with Mohamad El Chamaa for Episode 361 of The Beirut Banyan, recorded live at Aaliya’s Books.

Click to watch: https://youtu.be/Ebjl3XrlyKk

We discuss three articles of his long-form articles, including a piece on a forgotten crusader castle, European Jewish refugees arriving to Beirut in the 1930s and a sports history story dating back to the 1970s about a Lebanese Jewish Olympian David Saad.

Our conversation includes a Q&A section that reflects on relics from the civil war era, downtown Beirut's devolution, destruction and reconstruction in retrospect and an audience debate on lessons learned from our history vs capabilities that can shape our destiny.

Mohamad El Chamaa is a journalist and urban planner.

Special thanks to Samer Beyhum for his audio-technical support.

What’s to become of Beirut’s forgotten castle?

https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1290303/whats-to-become-of-beiruts-forgotten-castle.html

How Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis found shelter in Beirut

https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1302727/how-jewish-refugees-fleeing-the-nazis-found-shelter-in-beirut.html

I was as Lebanese as Anyone: The Story of David Saad, Lebanon’s Last Jewish Olympian

https://books.google.com.lb/books?id=0jVlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT49&dq=david+saad+(b.+1954)&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiryaflorf3AhWH_7sIHYb2CdcQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false

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