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It occurred to me in that session that I should have studied geography. I discovered with him that I really liked it and that it was perhaps my hidden passion that no one, including me, had noticed. Perhaps that is why I majored in a field that is close to human geography, namely cultural anthropology. If Nasser had taught me this subject in my early school years, I would have made alternative maps of this shitty world with him. If Baba had bought me that globe that I saw in the front of a bookstore on Rue Jeanne d'Arc in Beirut's Hamra district, I would have definitely gone into geography. Nasser and I would have written papers together about the political traps that terrain creates. I was four years old, and I stood pointing at that ball behind the glass, the bright blue with gold stripes all over it, and screaming: World, world, world, I want the world... Baba pulls me by the hand and says: “We will buy the world from the Levant, from the Levant!”
