My cousin Elias grew up believing that 10452 was a sacred number. As a boy, he inherited not just a political affiliation but a mythology. Like many young Christians of his generation, he idolized Bachir Gemayel, the Phalangist president-elect who was assassinated in 1982, before Elias was old enough to know him. Bachir was destined … Continue reading The Middle East Is Filled with Political Orphans
The old ideological fault lines are fading away.