Watching Beirut die
Posted by MarkWe went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city’s newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear — again.
A nice piece by Anthony Bourdain at Salon.com [Link]
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