To Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi, who has left Iraq for the relative calm of Beirut. Read her farewell article here, which is a no-holds-barred summary of three tumultuous years in Baghdad. This has echoes of the email Farnaz sent to friends and family, which was widely circulated and brought her to public attention.
Beirut has always appealed to me, ever since a Lebanese colleague told me how women would get their hair done as bombs rained down on the city. Like Paris, France, the 'Paris of the Middle East' is full of chic, impeccably-groomed women. Intimidating, perhaps, but I still hope to visit and eat even more Lebanese food than I already do.
And I will - I'm paying yet another visit to Chez Marcelle this weekend.
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