Tag: East

The Paris of the Middle East

That is what Beirut was called when I was in law school in the early 1970s. Some New York law firms had Beirut offices. It was considered a great posting for a young lawyer. These are scenes from the Beirut of those days: 50…

Folly in the Near East

OUR particularly well-informed Jerusalem correspondent reports in another column that the one result of Lord Balfour’s visit to Palestine has been immensely to stimulate the Arabs’ bitter resentment of the British mandate. We…