Rotana Hazmieh
Boulevard Chiyah near Galerie Semaan, PO Box 45-111 Hazmieh, Lebanon
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(5) Back to Beirut
... lunch we did a wine tasting; this is, after all, the area where Lebanon’s well respected wine comes from. Massaya, a trendy wine house relatively recently established with French partners, gave us the tour – which included seeing the grapes being loaded in the automatic wine press -, and then presented a couple of mediocre wines, a white that didn’t smell, and didn’t taste anything, and a few reds, all mixtures of grapes, no ...
(2) History of the Harbours
... mountains, and that provided not only wood for ship building, but also a sought-after export product. Because the individual cities never joined each other in a political entity, preferring to stay independent, they never formed a real threat for the early empire builders of the region, like the Egyptians, the Hittites, the Babylonians and the Assyrians, and for most of the time they managed to maintain this status quo. Until Alexander the ...
Lebanon
... and brought the family here."
"What was wrong in Armenia?" I asked.
"You know it was communist at the time?" he asked without expecting an answer. "But my father was also involved in some things. I think he wanted to get us away from his life more than he wanted to get us away from communism. He knew certain people in Armenia. In the neighborhood he was treated with respect." Now the details ...
Byblos (Maya's Hometown)+ Batroun
... 1576;يل Jubayl) and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades. It is believed to have been founded around 5000 BC, and according to fragments attributed to the ...
From Cairo to Beirut
... Sonny.
Maybe this is an ironic statement of getting a benign brain tumor from excessive cell phone usage.
Our
last supper in Cairo was at Gad. We were served up hearty portions of
falafel, fries, ...



