A Social Way to Learn About Arab Culture

The room in the house in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh was packed: Every possible seat was taken, every space on the floor, and people squeezed into any spot they could find. On an October evening, they had gathered to hear two lectures: one a talk about a geological feature of the Levant called the Dead Sea Transform, and the second about the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, an oil pipeline built in the 1950s. More...