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.

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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.

In the vibrant, chaotic city of Beirut, a place where the Mediterranean's waves collided with crumbling shores, a boy named Johny was born. His home was nestled deep in the heart of the city, surrounded by the echoes of honking cars, the smell of shawarma and freshly baked mankoushe from street vendors, and the perpetual buzz of life. Beirut, with its mix of old and new, of resilience and devastation, was a place where dreams were often born but rarely fulfilled. For Johny, those dreams seemed distant, stolen by circumstances no child should have to face. His life, like the city he loved, was one of survival and loss, and the battles he fought came far too early.

Will you be the hummus to my pita bread? [In no way am I shaming my culture and I love it very much <3 And it's not just girl problems it's just all things relatable with being Lebanese/Arab of any kind <3]

As she walked silently through old streets of Beirut, one thought was always on her mind while admiring the vintage architecture this city owns, "Am I the one who will change it all?" And just like you, Haya doesn't know how her story will end.

When a violent past leaves him vulnerable, a young man named Omar, will find comfort in the most unexpected place. *** !!!Trigger Warning!!! This story has some triggers as it contains violence, as well as references to drugs and alcohol, depression, and anxiety.

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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Murad, a young man who left his small village and moved to Beirut, his beloved city, chasing his dreams. This story is based on Muhammed and Shereen's point of view, telling people about the story of Murad, about the way his dreams slipped away like water through his fingers. This is, above all, a love story, and like so many love stories, the love story of Murad and Mariya in Beirut is rooted in a dark shade. It started like a dream coming true... But will it end like a nightmare? And how far their love will go deep in Beirut?