by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 25, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
A big thanks to Rabih who I met over at the Skyscrapercity.com forum (where they are also keeping track of “looks kike Beirut”) for this video courtesy of the BBC’s Panorama, a current affairs documentary program. The entire video can be found below...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 31, 2010 | Light Humor
A proud moment for Lebanese everywhere! This video was broadcasted on Canadian TV recently. What is it of? Well, here’s the description verbatim: A BBC videographer came upon an unusual site while on the streets of Beirut, a man transporting a cow in a small...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 19, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I had told Elizabeth Diffin of the BBC Online Service that you don’t hear people say “it looks like Baghdad”; apparently I was wrong: Many roads in Tiverton are so potholed, they are ‘more like those in Baghdad or Beirut’ – a former town Mayor...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 19, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Guildford Street in Grimsby, UK: A street in a North East Lincolnshire town which has been the scene of arson, drug dealing and violence for years is to be pulled down. All fair and well, right? Well let’s see what one resident...
