BEIRUT — Shoes, photo albums, teddy bears and a cash register poke through the debris.

BROUMANA — Twenty-seven years ago Lana Sayegh, then just 15 days old, first visited this village in the hills above Beirut in the arms of anxious parents seeking refuge from Lebanon’s raging civil war.

LARNACA — For one Arab American helicoptered out of Lebanon, life has been a tale of two troubled cities and two safe havens — the world’s superpower and a holiday island in the sun.