Hacking the Saudi narrative, Lebanese style
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. I’m not a fan of quoting cliches, but in…
One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
Campaign to save “Red House”
It seems everywhere you turn in Hamra, there is a new tower coming up. None of them affordable…
Fiber on the way?
Late last year I noticed a couple of technicians from Ogero– the state agency that runs the country’s…
Jack’s (abandoned) Hideaway
This place has been closed for as long as I can remember. It’s located on the bottom floor…
Who needs a sidewalk?
When you can have a cafe instead… You can’t even walk in the street because they have tables…
Hamra is back to normal except…
… for the “Hawker” private security guard staring and squinting at me while taking this picture (because I…
“This is not Ariel Sharon’s supermarket”
So reads the banner above, placed just outside an old supermarket on Makdessi street in Hamra. A handful…
The colonization of the frozen foods section has begun
It has also reached the aisles: Brace yourselves over the coming weeks when cars, shops and entire buildings…
Facebook-inspired design
Both establishments pictured here in Hamra. Not sure if a “like” buys you a discount.