My contact with Lebanon," Bruno Sfeir admits, "is a very new one." The Uruguayan painter, whose works have been on display at Jounieh's municipal palace for the last month or so, explains his Lebanese-Italian origins have sometimes pressured him to

Booker prize-winning British author Salman Rushdie has said in an interview broadcast Monday he may one day write a book about his life after a fatwa calling for his death. Asked by the BBC about his personal safety, Rushdie, who