The old men of barometre.

Shatila kids goofing around

Everyone getting ready for the Land Day celebration event, commemorating demonstrations and strikes held in 1976 by Palestinians living in Israel in protest against Israel's discriminatory policies towards them. In the course of those demonstrations in 1976, Israeli forces killed six civilians.

Shatila refugee camp, Beirut

Concrete and cinder block buildings separated by alleyways often not much more than a meter wide, electrical wiring weaving webs low above people's heads, open gutters, muddy streets, walls covered in graffiti under layers of posters commemorating causes and martyrs. Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees live in high densities in these slum cities. These are the chaotically-evolved settlements of what were once true camps, arrays of tents established to shelter the thousands of Palestinians who were exiled in 1948 and 1967. The camps in Lebanon are particularly forsaken.

Samer and Sukayna's wedding

Prime minister on my grandma's telly

Can't u just hear the gunshots ringing over the city? Everytime a politician speaks on TV here (Lebanon) a few bozos who support them take to rooftops or wherever and shoot ammo into the air. What I don't get is, if they love these speakers so much, don't you think they would be listening to what they have to say instead of streaming live rounds into the air?

Much nicer view today

View to downtown beirut

Sushi dinner at tsunami.

Tombstones of Protest at aub

View from my office at AUB

American University of Beirut campus.

View from my office at AUB 2

Hazy day today, but that still doesn't kill the view, though I should mention that gray patch in the background is the Mediterranean Sea.

Cafe Younes, Beirut

This cafe in the Hamra area of Beirut is 5mins from my house. It has the most important element to be found in cafes in this part of the world -- the sidewalk seating. Cafes are prime people watching venues and should be exploited to their full potential. I like this place, I spend many afternoons working away on their wireless connection, plotting my domination of the world.