Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.