Karantina's displaced: from palaces to basements
Date:
June 6th, 2013
Beirut – Al Hayat‘Hajjeh’ Samia’s face is flushed as she reminisces about the “good old days”. She talks about the family home in Karantina and the engravings on the marble wall in the salon of her...
The battles for “Bab Tabbaneh” and “Jabal Mohsen”: Banter...
Date:
May 21st, 2013
Al Hayat newspaper - In Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, hardly a day goes by without clashes between “Bab al-Tabbaneh” and “Jabal Mohsen”. The fighting is not only drawn along sectarian lines...
Smugglers store Saudi fuel in residential backyards in Aqaba
Date:
May 20th, 2013
Aqaba/Amman – In the southern town of Aqaba, the price of gasoline can be cheap. But poor storage of the large amounts smuggled regularly from Saudi Arabia can have a high human cost.In the backyard...
Expired dairy products, harmful preservatives and...
Date:
May 19th, 2013
Amman (A Ghad/Radio Al Balad) - Everyday, Mu’een carefully arranges dairy products on refrigerator shelves in his shop in one of Amman’s malls. Leaving no empty spaces, he stacks new products in the...
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