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Success story: Samir Yazbek
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by Joe Dyke
Samir Yazbek at his theatre school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 5 June 2014.

This article is part of an in depth special report on the Lebanese in Brazil. Read more stories as they’re published here, or pick up July’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. Samir Yazbek’s mother was unusual among emigrants in that she never really adjusted to Brazil. Taken from her homeland to enter a loveless marriage, she pined for the Lebanon of her youth. Leaving in the 1950s, she did not return for nearly 50 years — a trip that was ultimately a disappointment. “She spent a great part of her life regretting having left Lebanon, until she went back after the Civil War and was disappointed, because it was a different Lebanon to the one she had left,” Yazbek says. “She was so excited to see her brother, but when she left he was 20 and now he was 65 and had changed.” Yazbek’s parents’ experience of loss and suffering

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