before going to beirut to watch the elections we go to the city of Saida. we start at the unimpressive ruin of the chateau d’eau that lies in the small fishing port opposite of the medina. the leaflet provided to vistors by the ministry of tourism is identical in text with the section about this […]

downtown beirut, 29 may 2005

tomorrow will see the start of the parliamentary election in beirut. (the other parts of the country will vote on the consecutive sundays). the city while feeling relatively empty and calm is full of campaign posters and flags. as all of them are in arabic it is hard to to tell what they advocate but […]

at tegel half of the people in front of the check in counter seem to belong to one family whose patriarch is constantly busy telling te members of the extended group where they should be (basically the men at the counter and the women waiting on the other side of the hall). on both flights […]