Etiket: Beirut
Two more grain silos collapse during demonstration two years after massive port blast in Beirut | Abroad
Thousands of protesters gathered in Beirut today, two years after the massive port explosion, to denounce the government’s failure. They hope to uncover the truth behind the two-year explosion. During…
Dating in a Collapsing Country | our wife in Beirut
“Dating in this godforsaken country has always been a challenge,” sighs a friend as we catch up on my balcony, staring at a nearly obscure city—the Ikea solar-powered lamps I…
at the bakers in Beirut the bread is rationed
There is already a queue at Baydoun bakery in Beirut early in the morning.Image Aline Deschamps for the Volkskrant Screams are heard from the small bakery Baydoun in Beirut. A…
Review: Beirut :: Artifacts
If you climb into the attic and rummage through old suitcases, you will at best come across forgotten treasures, but a yellowed photo album is not bad either. You can…
Beirut: where the smell of frying fat gives way to that of pokébowls
I prefer to walk the way to my Arabic class, twice a week. Out the door, to the right and straight on at the intersection of Damascusstraat. The more I…