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The rationing of ingredients for bread, the shortage of basic supplies like toilet paper, the rising number of casualties when the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, it reminded Hussein Siblini, co-owner of Dearborn’s New Yasmeen Bakery, of the civil war he witnessed growing up in Lebanon. “I kept thinking, am I back in Beirut or am I in Michigan?” Siblini says.
His family’s bakery in Beirut, where he grew up, managed to stay open throughout the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted from 1975 until 1990. But he doesn’t think restaurants and bakeries will be so lucky during this pandemic.