Furthermore, as the show's curator, Jessica Morgan, points out, her art didn't fit into the Lebanese cultural establishment's desire for a modern art that referenced Lebanese tradition with subjects such as landscapes that could clearly be rooted in a particular place or a moment.

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He reckons that the peculiar fanaticism of local football fans and the interest in local historic symbols are part of the same thing: a deep-rooted desire for a cultural identity which reaches back to a time when the region was great and powerful, coupled with a certain resentment towards the south.

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I've kept them more or less in check, thinking they might affront people of color in this whole public desire to do some cultural exchanges - lay bridges across raging waters, and all that.

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On the one hand, he says, they demonstrated their will to integrate, but they also had a clear desire to maintain a distinct cultural identity.

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Unless our desire to rebuild is fierce, Young says the country will suffer a gaping cultural hole.

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The counter-cultural left combined genuine liberation with dangerous excess, while the traditionalist right mixed reaction with a desire to preserve some precious institutions, such as marriage.

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