6 Videos That Will Take You Back In Time To Lebanon's Golden Age
Is it possible to feel nostalgia for a time you've never known? An experience you've never had? Yes, and the feeling has a name in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows . It is anemoia.
It is not uncommon to experience anemoia. You'll probably experience it looking at pictures of old Lebanon, when it was ripe in its golden age.
To the newer generations, a pre-war Lebanon sounds like a fantasy.
Legends are told of 24-hour electricity and of the latest technology and design. Streets with traffic lights, decent public transportation, and a railroad alongside the coast sound like a dream.
But life before the war was very much a reality, one that our parents or grandparents were lucky to experience: Lebanon's golden age.
#1 Lebanon in the 1960s by British film producer Harold Baim
For prime anemoia, watch the longer version at the end.
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#2 Bustling Beirut in the early '60s
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#3 Footage of the classic MEA plane, the old airport, and Beirut in the '60s
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#4 A summer holiday in Beirut four years before the civil war.
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#5 Peaceful Lebanon in the mid-'50s.
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#6 Longer version of Haim's rare footage describing Lebanon.
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The effects of the war still reflect on Lebanon today, a country unable to move on from its trauma, but young Lebanese are holding on to hope that, one day, Lebnen rah yerja3.