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Beirut holidays

June 2019

  • Mounir Restaurant, Lebanon

    Dom Joly’s foodie tour of Lebanon

    The comedian spent his childhood in Lebanon and fell in love with its cuisine. Returning to tour the country’s mountains, he finds the food as good as ever

February 2018

  • Aerial view of a table of Lebanese food and drink.

    Culture, clubbing and chaos: out with the locals in Beirut

    Amid the city’s traffic jams and power cuts, a collaborative vibe among young Beirutis is seeing cutting-edge galleries and bars spring up, along with an emerging LGBTQ scene

February 2017

  • Terry Waite looking stern in a suit.

    This much I know
    Terry Waite: ‘Time takes on new meaning when you’re deprived of natural light’

    The humanitarian, 77, on torture, fear and being sustained by hope. Interview by Angela Wintle

September 2016

  • A woman walks past street art in Beirut, Lebanon.

    Beirut’s art scene: a top 10 guide

    As the city prepares for the Beirut Art Fair, we take a tour of new galleries, museums, shops and restaurants popping up in its bohemian neighbourhoods

June 2016

  • Beit Beirut, Beirut

    On the radar
    New museum openings lead Beirut’s renaissance

    New museums and galleries in Lebanon’s capital are being matched by new design boutiques, bars and restaurants in its bohemian districts

May 2016

  • Grand Aley Hotel

    Lebanon's abandoned hotel on the hillside – in pictures

    Very little land is not under construction, or signposted as sold, in Lebanon. The battle-scarred and decaying Grand Aley Hotel stands in haunting contrast

February 2016

  • Syrian refugee children stand on the stairs of their Beirut apartment building, damaged long ago during Lebanon’s civil war.

    Resilient cities
    To Beirut with hope: how the city shaped by refugees makes room for new arrivals

    The Syria crisis has forced thousands of refugees to the Lebanese capital, a city that has offered shelter to displaced people throughout its history. Beirut resident Jenny Gustafsson offers a personal view of this timeless urban story

January 2016

  • A street market in Mar Mikhael, Beirut.

    Insider's guides
    An insider's cultural guide to Beirut: 'a beautiful, rowdy, intoxicated mess'

    Instagram stories of Syrian refugees, Arabic rap and Armenian food – Nasri Atallah shows us there’s more to the capital of Lebanon than its glamorous clubs, or its troubled politics

October 2015

  • Beirut.

    Why I love …
    'Beirut is a city that refuses to die. I love its energy and resilience'

  • A gig in progress at the cabaret, music venue and bar Metro al Madina, Beirut, Lebanon

    A great little place I know
    Beirut’s funky Metro al Madina cabaret club

September 2015

  • Halwani’s new mural of the Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, in Beirut’s Hamra neighbourhood.

    Resilient cities
    How a Beirut graffiti artist is using his murals to try to unite a fragmented city

  • The big blue …Jeita Grotto, Lebanon.

    A great little place I know
    Going underground: the Jeita Grotto, Qornet El Hamra, Lebanon

June 2015

  • Beirut cityscape.

    Mapping, Beirut-style: how to navigate a city without using any street names

    People living in the Lebanese capital, and many other cities, eschew official addresses – instead describing locations using landmarks such as cinemas and theatres that no longer actually exist. So how does that work?

May 2015

  • Holiday Inn Beirut

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Beirut's bullet-riddled Holiday Inn - a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 28

    The once-plush hotel stands empty as a reminder of the city’s brutal civil war, while the surrounding districts are swept up in glitzy redevelopments

February 2015

  • View over Aleppo, Syria

    Extreme cities
    What is the oldest city in the world?

    Mark Twain declared that the Indian city of Varanasi was older than history, tradition and legend. He was, of course, wrong. So which exactly is the world’s most ancient continuously inhabited city?

January 2015

  • Beirut's Zaitunay Bay and the new waterfront.

    Urban futures with Oliver Wainwright
    Is Beirut's glitzy downtown redevelopment all that it seems?

    Two decades after civil war blew the Lebanese capital to rubble, the city centre boasts immaculately rebuilt streets lined with Gucci and Prada stores – but the whole place is strangely deserted, says Oliver Wainwright

November 2014

  • Instagram snapshots: Beirut

    Instagram snapshots
    Instagram snapshots: Beirut

    Local food, card games and retro mens’ saloons … Faisal Al Fouzan explores Beirut

November 2010

  • A cafe on the Corniche, Beirut, Lebanon

    Top 10 city guides
    Beirut on a budget

  • Faqra, Lebanon

    Lebanon in pictures

August 2010

  • Colour house in Beiruit: Yellow

    Interiors: A riot of colour in Beirut

    Want to create gorgeous rainbow rooms? Look no further than a Lebanon flat full of purples, oranges, yellows and greens

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