Posted By
Najib
Aug 20, 2012 02:04
Beirut Souks The few Arab tourists we had left for the summer fled or were evacuated by their embassies in the past few days due to the recent unfortunate events, mainly the kidnapping of Syrians and Turks by the Mokdad family's "military branch". I went down to Beirut Souks yesterday and it barely took me 30 minutes from Jounieh to get there. I expected traffic at Dbayyeh with Le Mall now open and at Nahr…
Posted By
Najib
Aug 18, 2012 05:23
David J Constable, author of "Boobs, Botox and the Babes of Beirut" BeirutBeats wrote a nice response to David Constable and his cheap article on Lebanon and its women. Read it all . So summer is here again and with it comes the annual influx of derogatory, poorly researched articles by western ‘journalists’ doing their best to pick out the worst parts of Beirut culture after a quick holiday visiting a couple of nightclubs. Last…
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