When I was about ten or so my mother gave me a letter she had been saving for me. She wrote it after having flown from Beirut to England in one of her last weeks of pregnancy so that I could be born a British citizen like my father. The letter is her attempt to document her pregnancy and towards the end she mentions the heavy shelling around their apartment block and that while on the bus to the airport (which had to cross the Green Line) it was suddenly hijacked by the Amal milita looking to take hostages. Since she was female and had a Syrian passport she was not taken, although two men who were either British or American were not returned to the bus...

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