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" Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. "
Anthony Shadid
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" The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese. "
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