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Samia Doughan (C), mother of twin girls, holds a picture of her husband Mohammad, 48, who was killed in the August 4 explosion at the Port of Beirut, as she stands with families of other victims during a protest marking the four month anniversary since the blast, at the entrance to the Port of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2020. Picture taken December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
BEIRUT (Reuters) – They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug. 4. Men, women and children from Christian and Muslim sects cradle portraits of their dead.
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The Son of a Mixed Marriage: On Naji Bakhti’s “Between Beirut and the Moon”
Naji Bakhti
EARLY INTO Naji Bakhti’s
Between Beirut and the Moon, the novel’s protagonist Adam hides in a single bathroom with his family from Israeli aircraft bombs dropping in the distance. As the hours pass, Adam’s father asks him and his younger sister about school, literature, and soccer to distract them, while his chain-smoking mother reminds him that he’s “lucky” because he will now have inspiration as a writer later on. Adam resents his mother’s positive spin; not only does he find her use of black humor unsettling after all, no citizenry would possibly be thankful for being bombed but he dreams with unflinching determination of becoming an astronaut, not a writer: “I wanted to shout back … to exclaim that there was probably infinitely more inspiration in space than there ever would be in a tiny old bathroom in Beirut.”