Posted By
Najib
May 04, 2016 09:52
I expected municipal candidates to take Beirut Governor's ban seriously but instead the number of posters has drastically increased and they are all over the place Let's see if anyone is going to remove them after the elections are done. I just wish the Interior Ministry and Beirut's governor were more strict on these matters but then again sheep are getting slaughtered in broad day light on the streets without anyone intervening.
Posted By
Najib
May 04, 2016 03:42
I just finished reading "The Eternal Magic of Beirut", an article by Michael Specter published on the NY Times. It's one of the best articles I've read on Beirut in a long time. Here are some of my favorite passages from the article but I highly recommend you read the whole thing. On Beirut as a whole: There is something singular about Beirut. It has one foot planted in the Middle East and the other…
Information
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