Raising the flag: Patriotism or something more sinister?

When I first came to the UK nearly four decades ago, I left behind a broken country called Lebanon, where all the various flags had become symbols marking the communal, religious and ideological divides and the dominance of different militias. It would not be an exaggeration to say that all the flags of the political and religious parties, and even foreign flags, were more prevalent in the dark days of Lebanon’s civil war than the Lebanese national flag.

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