The importance of being Lebanese: clever children claim

So many Lebanese parents are convinced their children are geniuses and every Lebanese newborn is genius exceptional or simply the best at his first year he can recognize the colors, 18 month he knows all the days of the week, 2 years he can surf the net and use the I pad at 3 he can make phone calls (My kid is better, smarter, faster, stronger than your kid ) .

Still sticking to Lebanon, and image and delusions of grandeur: Eavesdropping is often not a choice in a beauty parlor in Lebanon, where voices are certainly not hushed.

"These were actual conversations I heard at the beauty parlor! Thank God I didn’t stay there for long, before my brain turned into mush!"

"First impressions of the Opposition Meeting in Turkey sent by a friend” "

"Syrian opposition activists walk past a poster of President Bashar al-Assad with his face crossed off during the opening session of a three-day meeting in Turkey to discuss democratic change.The writing on poster reads: 'The blood of the martyrs will make this throne unbearable for you. Get out!' "

"The Syrians will never see the fall of Assad’s regime unless the fire of demonstrations reaches Damascus. Until the people of Damascus feel strongly enough to rise up and abet the rest of their country, nothing will change. A regime does not fall until the capital falls."

Some lyrical prose:

"I stare at my reflection in the mirror. Drown into those girl’s eyes; a shadow of someone I used to know. She used to be so confident and fearless, a doer. And now she just waits."