From Tripoli to Damascus

 From Tripoli to Damascus The Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2009 (published under a pen name to protect the identity of the interviewees) I’d spent five days in Beirut partying too hard and sleeping on a friend’s small couch. I needed a respite from the city lined with bullet-pocked buildings and booming nightclubs. I considered Tripoli—a …

Burgeoning Beirut bourgeois

Burgeoning Beirut bourgeois The Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2008 (published under a pen name to protect the identity of the interviewees) It’s Friday night and we’re piled into a SUV, headed toward Gemmayze – the uber-hip district of the moment in Beirut where young people go to party. My host sits in the passenger seat, …