Beirut is Beirut, which is more than enough.
If anyone is close to household-name status, it's this Beirut-born designer.
There was Beirut a generation ago, Baghdad more recently.
"It's rampant," says Nadim Houry, the Beirut-based deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa, who has taken testimony on hundreds of cases of torture from Syria, "and, the odds are, if you're detained, you will be ill treated and most likely tortured.
It's an arresting, heady mixture of retro-Beirut music – the signature sound being Haig Papazian's razor-sharp violin.
"It's the most frustrating situation I've ever been in and potentially the most challenging," said Arwa Damon, a Beirut-based correspondent for CNN.
"Tramp," Van Etten beguiling third album, was produced by the National's Aaron Dessner, and includes contributions from members of the Walkmen, Wye Oak, and Beirut but it's entirely her own haunting affair.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — It is election season in Lebanon, and Hussein H., a jobless 24-year-old from south Beirut, is looking forward to selling his vote to the highest bidder.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — It was a struggle to reach Ummayad Square in Damascus, where many thousands of Syrians had gathered on Thursday to cheer President Bashar al-Assad.
BEIRUT — As the bloody conflict in Syria enters its second year, it is inflicting economic stresses and uncertainties on the country's neighbors.
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - It isn't the U.S. cruise missiles that terrify Saleem, a pro-government militia fighter who survived some of the toughest battles of Syria's civil war.
