HeyJaredA Broad
Collective care, anti-colonialism, life in Lebanon, travel, recovery, and lots of swearing.
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Sour (opens the original)
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It’s 10:30pm, and I’m on the highway from Beirut heading to south Lebanon.I’m with a man I will call the journalist, because that’s what he is, and we are not always so original here at A Broad. We met through a mutual friend a couple of months ago. About three weeks ago, he asked if I wanted to go for a drink and tell him more about my film. I was so convinced it wasn’t a date, I invited a friend of mine to come along. (She declined.)We’d sat in the courtyard of a restaurant in Hamra, the neigh
Phoof, The Universe, and Everything (opens the original)
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August, 2021. After spending four months disassembling my house, giving away most of what was in it and packing up what was left, I’m about to leave Canada for good. I’m supposed to get a ride to Montreal and stay with my brother for the weekend, then fly out to Turkiye from there. My brother has been clean from drugs and alcohol for a few months. But it’s not the first time. I’ve lost count of how many attempts at sobriety there have been, over how many years. I know banking on a weekend at his
The Things That Save You (opens the original)
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I’m sitting at an imitation Starbucks in the mountains with a cat named Candy.Yes, this is Lebanon. Whatever they call rules here are usually vague suggestions, but I’m still amazed that no one says anything about having a cat at a coffee shop. Actually, they do. Half the employees have already come over and patted Candy. The guy sitting next to us has just invited his girlfriend over to meet her. My friend Yara adopted Candy two days ago, and has been running all over the country ever since and
We Lebanese (opens the original)
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1.Our hug is inappropriately long.If we weren’t in Lebanon, or if you weren’t about to leave this land, never to return except for the visits we’re already talking about, it would’t have lasted like that For minutes. Wordless. On a rooftop overlooking the sea, while an ABBA remix blasted and glasses clinked and friends danced around us.This is how it is in Lebanon, where the people who can do so come and go, especially after jobs and during wars. We don’t say more, after the hug. We don’t need t
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