When I arrived in Beirut I was 14 and a half years old

And where did you go? To which school?

I went for six months to Alliance School. Then I transferred to Mission Laïque Universelle

Mission Laïque

How was the transition from a Jewish French-language school to a Christian school?

Or at least French?

I never knew French at all

When I was at Alliance for six months I knew Arabic much more than French