but I never saw something like this before," baker Hekmat Kaai said. "I am wondering how cheap a human being is in this country. Where are we going? Beirut was completely destroyed in an instant." ...

The blast left a scene described by one Beirut newspaper as looking like an apocalypse With images of the city before and after showing the extent of the devastation One man, Alan Chaoul ...

But each morning after the air raids, some semblance of normal life returns for a few hours before the bombardment ... People ...

These were the first sentences uttered by Lebanese-Australian man Ghaneem Faddoul when he spoke with SBS Arabic24 on Wednesday, just hours after a massive blast ripped through Beirut’s port.

Before the civil war broke out in 1975 and wrought havoc on Lebanon for fifteen years, Beirut was regarded as the ‘Paris of the East’ and together with Cairo was the capital of Arabic film. Five years ...