Times of Struggle and Cultural Liberation—A Conversation with Elias KhouryOn September 15, 2024, Elias Khoury, a giant of Lebanese political and literary life, died at the age of 76. And I want to point out that the civil war, which began in 1975, liberated literature in one way or another. You cannot write the present of a civil war, which took place in 1975, without remembering a civil war that happened in the nineteenth century, beginning in 1860. And that there was a feeling of shame in going back to an event like the civil war. But I think struggle has many forms, and one of its forms is writing and literature.