Beirut Stories

Mia Haddad belongs to Beirut. Her face is on billboards from Hamra to Downtown. Her songs play from every beach club in Lebanon. Designers fight to dress her, photographers follow her, and half the Middle East thinks they know her. They don't. Marwan does. Unfortunately, she can't stand him. Saint Levant is everything Mia hates-arrogant, impossible, effortlessly charming, and somehow always standing in the exact room she wants to escape. Their friends have spent years pretending the tension between them is simple hatred. It isn't. And one summer night in Beirut is about to make that impossible to ignore.

Being a keen traveler, who documents the lives of women encountered, visiting Beirut in Lebanon last year was an eye-opener. Over 250,000 African and South East Asian women, are employed in the country as domestic maids. They have no employment or legal protection and instead are governed by their employers, under the kafala system. This lead them to be strictly controlled by employers, who often treat them harshly and they are exposed to physical and psychological abuse, in more extreme cases, sexual violence, torture and murder. The following are based on my observations while in Beirut.

Students who choose Beirut for their higher education aren't just choosing a degree - they're choosing a city that's alive with energy, possibility, and inspiration.

Beirut, 2016. Karim is twenty-seven, overworked at a dead-end start-up, underpaid, and restless. He spends his days shuttling between a cramped apartment he shares with his soon-to-be-married sister and the city's chaotic streets, where Uber rides and late-night shawarma eat away at his salary. By night, he sneaks lovers past closed doors and wonders whether love is even possible in a city split between tradition and rebellion. Karim drifts through long workdays, late-night taxis, and secret desires, until a chance connection with a quiet driver pulls him into a web of temptation, power, and hidden lives. A Declaration of Love is a bold, intoxicating portrait of Beirut's contradictions. Its glamour and grit, its freedom and repression-and of one man caught between passion and self-preservation.

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"There's a bomb!" someone shouted. "There's a bomb!" I had just collected 'NME' from the newsagent that reserved it for me each week and had been lazily staring at a display of the new 'designer' stretch jeans in the windows of Gloria Vandebilt's shop. All had been calm on the city's main shopping street. Then suddenly it was chaos. People ran in all directions as if their lives depended upon it ... which they did. Men, women and children screamed as they fled down side streets, their shopping bags flying behind them like parachutes. I was in amongst them, running at full pelt until I thought I was far enough away from the suspect device. How would I know? I didn't. Did I hear an explosion? No. Was it really a bomb? I never knew.

Hindsight is 20/20. Let's hope future generations will recover the joy of life lost by so many...

A short story of a man looking for inner peace

A fire smouldering for days at Beirut port has revived painful memories of the explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital in 2020, with the government struggling to find a way to extinguish it as the second anniversary of the blast approaches, Reuters reports.

Teresa y Román. Román y Teresa. Una relación que ha durado años y que, coincidiendo con el viaje de él a Beirut, está a punto de tomar un giro de 180 grados.

A gem on the Mediterranean, an inspiration for a thinker and a gypsy dancer for night lovers.Beirut seems forever doomed for the blessing of beauty and charm.