Category Archives: Main PageOver the past month I have received dozens of beautiful, heartfelt, supportive emails from Lebanese readers. Amongst the writers were people who described themselves as ex-Hezbollah supporters, secular Shi'a, Syrian, Sunni and Christian. Most of them used their real names, and I was very touched by their willingness to trust me. Interestingly, the only person [...]
Note: The following article is available in .pdf form, here. Because the article is long, some readers might prefer to print the .pdf and read the hard copy rather than sitting in front of the computer monitor for so long. A massive, massive thanks to Peter Shea for volunteering to format and host the document. [...]
The Second Lebanon War ended one year ago this week. In the capital of Lebanon they have started to lick their wounds and to restore their wounded and bombarded city for the umpteenth time. During and after the war, Tel Aviv blogger Lisa Goldman connected online with Lebanese friends. This summer she decided to take [...]
As promised, I finally added English subtitles to the Channel 10 report from Beirut, plus the follow-up interview with Yaron London and Moti Kirshenbaum that took place the following day. The guy with the curly dark hair sitting next to me is Zvi (Zvika) Yehezkeli, head of the Arab desk for Channel 10. Channel 10 [...]
Over the past few days my report from Lebanon has elicited some very interesting responses. On the one hand, I have received so many warm and supportive emails from Lebanese readers that I simply have not had time to respond to them all. Those emails came from people who identified themselves as Sunni, Shi'a and [...]
Me reporting from Beirut in Hebrew, for Channel 10 news. This photo is taken from the Al Manar (Hezbollah) website. **Scroll down for update. I waited to write about my trip to Beirut because I found out a few days after returning to Tel Aviv that Channel 10 news wanted to send me back to [...]
I know that a lot of people are waiting for my first post about Beirut, but I'm still writing… To keep you amused in the meantime, below is another video I filmed during my visit. It was taken at La Plage, a rather chic bar / restaurant on the Corniche, on my second day in [...]
The secret can finally be told: I was in Beirut for the past week. I'll need a day or two to start posting about that amazing trip, but I'll leave you with two images (one photo and one video), below. Flickr photos are here. They do yoga in Beirut, too. Preamble (with pre-preamble). Beirut – [...]
I am on a brief hiatus, with blogging to resume early next week. Meanwhile, check out the book I photographed at an Amman bookshop. Don't freak out – it's a novel. Review is here.
About a year ago, I wrote about a blog called Israel 2046 . “Shai,” the 28 year-old Israeli who created incredibly imaginative posts about a border-less, peaceful Middle East forty years hence, was someone I met via the Internet. After reading some of his wise and perceptive comments on a now defunct blog, called Palestinian [...]
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