28.7.06

Beirut on July 28, 2006

Beirut from Ain Saade—Note the black strip of shit in the sky


Dahyeh from Ain Saade


Ras Beirut/Ashrafieh from Ain Saade



Port from Ain Saade



Today, there's a bluer sky. the reason is of course that israel spared dahyeh and beirut tonight.
The grey/black strip of pollution is getting thicker day by day. 3azeem. tawash. thank you israel.

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i don't feel like talking much today. except i got a phone call from my client to resume the work. am happy things are still rolling in. we will survive israel, we will survive all of them.
unless of course this turns into a fucking catastrophe, with Al Qaeda's video yesterday—who asked them for their opinion? as if we needed more escalation. Are they trying to turn this into a thirld world war? what's with the hatred?

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it's my brother's birthday today. Happy birthday bro. hope next bday is more peaceful.

3 comments:

Rasha said...

Zooz, you cannot understand what a relief it is to see people from inside the country giving us their views, their feelings, their snapshots of what is going on the inside. There is nothing harder than opening up the BBC or CNN websites to get the news, with the facts, sometimes biased, sometimes not, in all their objective un-compassionate coldness.
The world needs to see the humanity behind the numbers.
Love you, take care...

bored said...

rasha: kis immik. you disappeared.

Rasha said...

bored,
i didn't disappear, i'm doing all i can here, demonstrations, awareness, circulating your blogs, asking for an article about Beirut in Dazed (which is happening, yes!). But i am also a bit in denial, and i cannot believe that i am far away from this, and that when i'll come back, my beautiful country will be defaced.
I'm small in London, but fuck it, I'm screaming.
Love you all.
x