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Jekyll and Hyde: snapshots of Beirut’s two sides

I love the juxtaposition of Beirut. All battle-scarred and weary on the one hand and flash-the-cash gaudy on the other. It’s a city where soldiers, slouching against tanks, still occupy street corners watching high-heel clad shoppers, clack-clack-clacking down the pavement, swinging designer-label bags. Old Beirut may be no more but it will take the developers a while yet to wipe out the last crumbling, derelict reminders of a city that was once hailed as the Paris of the East and then nearly destroyed itself with war.

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One thought on “Jekyll and Hyde: snapshots of Beirut’s two sides”

chaiselongue1 on June 14, 2013 at 9:39 pm said:

Interesting shots of a divided city. I specially like the textured walls that show their history in their markings.