by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 28, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
Over the past year or so, I have been using photos of Beirut to accompany my Looks Like Beirut posts. These photos have been made available thanks to the Creative Commons-licensed photos posted by users on Flickr. Through a recent search, I came across a photo with a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 8, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
The New York Times has an online series called Townies, and according to NYT it is “a series about life in New York — and occasionally other cities — written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there”. Last week’s edition saw Cathy...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 26, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
The Oakland Streets blog, run by a local citizen, has come across a report on why the streets of the city look like a war zone or as he/she put it: Why My Street Looks Like Beirut I recently stumbled across an “OaklandStreets Fact Sheet” put out by the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 18, 2012 | Entertainment News
I reported back in May that the US TV drama, Homeland, used locations in Tel Aviv to shoot scenes that were supposedly of Beirut. Over the past few days, I have been amused by the whole “Beirut doesn’t look like that” from all corners of the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 16, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
I would have never in a million years expected to find a “looks like Beirut” reference on a website dedicated to children and mothers. A mother that goes by the username Vickytoria28 on the BabyCentre.co.uk’s discussion board has opened this thread:...