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Creating a piece of Lebanon in northern Armenia

After a move that neither of them could have anticipated, two friends from Lebanon ended up bringing a little piece of home to northern Armenia.  ‘It was a crazy idea’, admits Christiane ‘Kiki’ Saadeh.  In 2020, Kiki Saadeh and Natalie Khalife were living in Lebanon and had just lost their jobs in hospitality, a result of a financial crisis compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and Beirut port explosion. Despite their deep devotion to Lebanon, or perhaps because of it, the two friends felt the