{"id":32400,"date":"2025-06-10T05:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=32400"},"modified":"2025-06-10T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:20:23","slug":"mr-leon-saad-and-his-beloved-birth-city-beirut-a-moving-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/mr-leon-saad-and-his-beloved-birth-city-beirut-a-moving-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Leon Saad and his beloved birth city Beirut: a moving interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31117\" style=\"width:433px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg 964w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-768x234.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bambi thanks the reader who kindly shared a brief, beautiful interview chat with Mr. Leon Saad. The latter is an American citizen of Lebanese origins. Mr. Saad happens to be of Jewish heritage and, like Bambi, he was born in Beirut. They both share the same love for Lebanon and for humanity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mr. Leon Saad: thank you for this beautiful interview about Beirut\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EIaSR31nCmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Fairuz - Bhebbak Ya Lebnan (Lebanese Arabic) Lyrics + Translation - \u0641\u064a\u0631\u0648\u0632 - \u0628\u062d\u0628\u0643 \u064a\u0627 \u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646 \u0643\u0644\u0645\u0627\u062a\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-vX-HPSQnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi thanks the reader who kindly shared a brief, beautiful interview chat with Mr. Leon Saad. The latter is an American citizen of Lebanese origins. Mr. Saad happens to be of Jewish heritage and, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32404,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32400\/revisions\/32404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}