City Suite Beirut

... Dave, and Mazen was great, and all in all, it was a beautiful way to end the day! I'm stealing this recent "review" of Beirut from the Start In Antarctica journal because it was written much more coherently that I could have written it as tired as I ...

... excerpts from his diary. If you have any interest in learning more about the middle east issues as well as Israel, Palestine, Beruit, Lebanon and other bordering countries I recommend, From Beruit to Jerusalum by the same author. He has also written The ...

Leaving Beirut after a month was quite a hard departure. I'd become very attached to this crazy Middle Eastern city and in the last month I was blessed with perfect weather, great company and a really nice apartment in the bustling commercial district of ...

... . There was the place with the most stunning view - an apartment on the 28th floor, looking right out across the city, with a big bathtub in the en suite to the master bedroom from which you could gaze out of the massive windows at that view as you soak ...

... cinema.  The film "Waltz with Bashir" was really unusual, being an animated piece on the creators memories about a massacre in Beirut during the 1980s Israeli Lebanon War - it was pretty heavy but really good - I read the subtitles as Evan enjoyed ...

... you happy. We gratefully unloaded our bags into the room and set off into Penang to look around, the city was much more inviting than Kota Bharu (though Beirut would likely be less hostile) with plenty of vibe, buzzing markets, crazy traffic and lots and ...

... news websites today and I see that in many ways little has changed in the same period from what I just finished reading in From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman.  In fact there exist a lot of the same issues: struggle for power and control of ...