Books

Whenever I am going on vacation to a place I try to read a few books about its history first. It gets me psychologically situated for what I’m going to experience and I also find that people appreciate it and are even touched to find that you know a bit about their history.

Reading deepens your enjoyment of life. I don’t know if I’d enjoy travel so much if I wasn’t aware of all the layers of history beneath a place that I was visiting. I’m planning to travel through a few countries in southern Europe later this year and am reading books in anticipation.

Big fan of this approach. 

After leaving Coinbase in 2019, I spent 8 months traveling. Logged off from Twitter for a good chunk of it. Ended up reading a bunch of books.

First time in Middle East — Jordan, Egypt, Israel — and I really enjoyed these two books while there:

https://www.amazon.com/Arabs-History-Eugene-Rogan-ebook/dp/B007TV0PJE

https://www.amazon.com/Crusades-Through-Arab-Eyes-Essentials-ebook/dp/B008SBXGCW

https://danromero.org/2019-booklist.html

It's fun and nice to explore the culture behind the visited country, but somehow books are overrated in this situation.

If you were to close off visiting Lebanon on the roadmap you have, I can tell you there is no specific book that will give you the whole picture, as every writer will be biased toward a specific group of people. 

Remember lebanon have more 18 Reliogions.

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I agree with you. But there are historical and geographical facs that no one can change, no matter how hateful and lying he is.  The action is in the field....