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Check out how many cinemas there were in Beirut in 1964. (This isn't even the full list, which begins in the previous column, nor does it include the dozens of cinemas in other cities.)
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When in Australia on a book tour in 2012, I went to a Lebanese restaurant in Melbourne. Everybody there was Druze and no one had ever been to Lebanon. (3rd gen) They all spoke Lebanese with a heavy Druze accent that I hadn't heard since I was a child.
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