east lebanon

The temple complex of Baalbek had been attracting tourists long before Kaiser Wilhelm’s visit in 1898. In providing information for those travelling from Damascus to Beruit, Cook’s Tourists’ Handbook for Palestine and Syria, published by Thomas Cook & Son in 1876, suggests overnighting in Baalbek. […]

Everyone like me in the Lebanese diaspora have a very common dilemma during the yearly visit to Lebanon: Time. First leaving the airport and arriving home, the parents, the brothers and sisters, the relatives, manqouche, knefe and the visit to the nearest mosque or church. […]