Saturday, August 05, 2006

Sleepless in Beirut: A resident's perspective

Written by Nadine Fares Kahil in Beirut

A journalist and resident of burning Beirut gives her account of life in the previously promising metropolis-turned-warzone as the bombs rain down...

‘The capital of the Middle East’, the ‘Switzerland of the East’, the ‘Paris of the Mediterranean’… these are but a few names given to Lebanon. Rising up from the ashes of 15 years of fierce conflicts, the country was determined to get back the throne it once lost. more...

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