Homeland is an award-winning US television show set in the Middle East. The drama series has been causing quite a rumpus in Lebanon over its depiction of Beirut. One particularly odd scene from season two sees a truck carrying Hezbollah members, armed to the teeth, down a street in broad daylight. They are in cahoots with al-Qaeda and eventually the CIA, which has been tracking the hoodlums for a while, springs out and arrests the whole lot of them. Or they don’t – I’ve not seen the second series. Details, though, don’t matter. What does is the way that Homeland – a riotously popular and highly thought-of show – shows Lebanon as some sort of war-torn hell hole, a nightmarish pastiche of the cliche…