by Mazen Majouz | Jan 9, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the hills that rise above the Mediterranean, north of Beirut, a narrow ribbon of land has escaped the urban sprawl that characterizes the Lebanese capital’s perpetual growth. Bentael Nature Reserve became Lebanon’s first...
by Mazen Majouz | Aug 31, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—On one of the walls of the Rashidieh Camp, located in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, a sprawling mural shows Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s founder, cradling the keffiyeh of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, Fatah’s founder, in...