Example sentences for: hawi

How can you use “hawi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.

  • Ajami begins his book with a bang: the suicide of Khalil Hawi, a Lebanese poet who shot himself on the day in 1982 when Israel invaded Beirut.

  • Hawi had also come to detest the willingness of his fellow thinkers to become rented mouthpieces for Lebanon's myriad parties and militias, to cheer as the country imploded.

  • Hawi saw Lebanon's dirty war as a meaningless blood bath rather than as another glorious confrontation with Israel.

  • Through the tragic figure of Hawi, Ajami mourns the tolerant, graceful, cosmopolitan Beirut of his youth and decries the factionalism that led to its ruin.


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