“This past summer I lived a lie: to everyone on my Summer Arabic Program at the American University of Beirut, I was German-Irish, Unitarian, and vegetarian. With the exception of one other Jew who had confided his Judaism to me first, nobody knew I was Jewish. What I witnessed in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan is the Arab world as a society in utter mental and philosophical stagnation”. (The Justice-Brandeis University)
Read this excellent article here: From Beirut to Jerusalem– Eric Trager
