Unlikely Shelter

Arab uprisings push U.S. students from Egypt to Lebanon

Not so long ago, Western students wanting to study in the Arab world flocked to Cairo and Damascus.

But as last year’s Egyptian uprising and enduring unrest in Syria made those once-secure locales more dangerous, Americans wanting a safer semester abroad started going in larger numbers to a place long synonymous with war and danger but of late experiencing peace: Beirut.

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