Winter in Beirut

February 12, 2015

Winter in Beirut Apart from the rain and storms and freezing houses, they are not that bad. Lebanon’s winters. Beirut in the distance, from Dbayeh’s “marina” (pavement 100 m down from the highway). Very much Beirut. Cement, dreaming of greenery. From Gariné’s rooftop. Buildings have close neighbours in Geitawi. “The young guys’...

September 28, 2012

Am currently working on a report about one (of many) informal and illicit money-making businesses in Lebanon: hashish.  Spent a weekend in a village that is “famous all over the world for the top-class hashish” – Yammouneh in the Bekaa Valley’s north-east. It’s a tiny village, tucked in between...