Beirut

Ricardo Karam – Some use the keys to close doors, others open doors

4 August 2021

Ricardo says that the keys are in everyone’s hands. Some use it to close doors, others open doors towards knowledge, light and hope, and there are those who do not use it because they prefer to live between… Here some keys of Ricardo on the […]

1st row: Suleiman, Mikati, Safadi, Aridi, Jumblatt, Qahwaji. 2nd row: Suleiman, Salam, Khalil, Zaiter, Berri. 3rd row: Aoun, Hariri, Khalil, Berri, Finianos, Frangieh. 4th row: Najm, Oweidat, Sawan, Bitar.

UALM – One year on, what we know about the Beirut Port explosion (timeline & video)

4 August 2021

The United Australian Lebanese Movement (UALM) published an article about what happened so far with the 4th of August 2020 when a devastating explosion destroyed most of the port of Beirut and killed more than 200. One year on from the August 4th 2020 Beirut […]

De ravage van het Sursock paleis in Beiroet, Libanon. Foto Diego Ibarra Sánchez

NRC: Een jaar na de explosie in Beiroet is het iconische Sursock Paleis nog steeds grotendeels verbrijzeld

4 August 2021

Mary Cochrane is de echtgenote van Roderick Cochrane, een telg uit de beroemde Libanese aristocratische Sursock familie (Roderick draagt de achternaam van zijn Ierse vader). Gekleed in een spijkerbroek en wit T-shirt geeft de Amerikaanse vrouw een rondleiding door het Sursock Paleis, het monumentale 19de-eeuwse […]

… Then we saw all these NGOs, all these Lebanese people working, rebuilding, making Lebanon a better place – and all these people who were sending us messages … saying, ‘Wow you guys are doing a great job, you’re giving us hope.’ Young Lebanese people […]