leslie.plommer on "Remembering Mai Ghoussoub"

leslie.plommer — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:07:35 +0100

As the Open Democracy remembrances of her richly demonstrate, Mai was and remains nothing less than a gift to the human race.

Marko Attila Hoare on "Remembering Mai Ghoussoub"

Marko Attila Hoare — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:19:29 +0000

I received the news of Mai's death with absolute shock, as the loss of someone whom I've known all my life. Mai used to babysit me as a child; she was very good with children, and I always looked forward to her visits; she was like a favourite auntie. As I grew older, we began to discuss politics; we had a detailed written exchange in 1990 or 1991, when she argued passionately in favour of military intervention to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein, and I argued passionately against. Fifteen years later, I told her I now thought she'd been right all along; she surprised me by replying that she now thought I may have been right all along. My mother, who is from Croatia, always said that Mai and her other Lebanese friends could appreciate what it meant to have your country suffer war in a way that many people from Western Europe could not. So during my last conversation with Mai last year, I understood something of the anger she felt at what was happening to her Lebanon at the hands of Israel and Hezbollah. She was a very intelligent, warm, kind and lovely person, and I'm very sorry that she's gone.

Marko Attila Hoare

Remembering Mai Ghoussoub, Anna Wilson Maggie Gee Anthony Barnett

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The loss of the Lebanese artist and publisher leaves her friends and colleagues bereft. Maggie Gee, Anna Wilson and Anthony Barnett pay tribute to Mai Ghoussoub. Read the rest of this post...

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leslie.plommer on "Remembering Mai Ghoussoub"

Marko Attila Hoare on "Remembering Mai Ghoussoub"

Remembering Mai Ghoussoub, Anna Wilson Maggie Gee Anthony Barnett