One of the advantages of living at Mafraq Sharooq in Musaitbeh, Beirut, was the presence of Mustapha’s grocery just around the corner. It was not a modern supermarket, not the brightest, cleanest, most organized store in West Beirut, which is exactly what was so nice about it. Mustapha Kais, the owner and manager and […]
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In its precarious position in the middle of the great upheaval of the Middle East, Lebanon faces four serious threats. (1) ISIS, ubiquitous and brutal, on its eastern border and infiltrating its cities. The Lebanese Army has already faced it. Soldiers have been captured, some have been beheaded. To make this really complicated, ISIS is […]
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