Open AccessExcerpts taken from the book by Mai Ghoussoub Leaving Beirut: Women and Wars Within
Author(s) -
Mai Ghoussoub
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.190
Subject(s) - blame , brother , bliss , amnesia , witch , spanish civil war , abnormality , history , psychology , psychoanalysis , political science , law , criminology , social psychology , psychiatry , ecology , computer science , biology , programming language
I was lucky. I had the possibility of leaving. Many were stuck in the war and didn’t have the luxury of avoiding involvement in it. But the bliss of amnesia seems to be shortlived, and the desire to ignore my own responsibilities was a flimsy subterfuge against guilt. The most difficult thing for me to acknowledge is that I blinded myself deliberately for such a long time. It took the ripped and torn body of my brother to release me. What right do I have now to blame those who continued indulging in the abnormality of war?