“If it had lasted for someone else, it would not have come to you”… A message for those in power

El Shark: At the entrance to the Grand Serail in Beirut, an inscription sums up the philosophy of governance and confronts every official with an unchanging truth: “If it had lasted for someone else, it would not have come to you.” The martyred President Rafik Hariri placed this inscription in 1998, after the restoration and expansion of the Serail were completed, as a reminder that power…