Word: beiruters
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Since July 14, Harvard has recommended that affiliates leave Lebanon, and it has offered the services of International SOS (ISOS)—a large worldwide emergency logistics company—to those wishing to evacuate via Beirut...
Michael J. Esdaile, a Canadian second-year Ph.D. student in Middle Eastern History, was mildly wounded when he cab was hit by fire in Beirut, Owen said...
...pick up staples like bedsheets and bottled water, and sign up with the Ministry of Labor for help finding work. (Less lucky are the hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrant workers suddenly back home and jobless - the legion of cheap labor that built the recent wave of pricey new Beirut high-rises, and cleaned the apartments inside...
...That sense of lukewarm support is strongest in places like Al Jidadeh, a short drive outside the city. The big crossing point in the commute between Beirut and Damascus is nearly always crowded. But for the past week, say Syrian relief workers, managing the checkpoint has been like trying to force a sea through a tiny spigot. The recent conflict may have created as many as 700,000 refugees; more than 200,000 of them have journeyed overland to Syria since the fighting began, that number surging over the past few days, as the risk of air and sea travel...
...weary-looking woman in a black track suit and pink flip-flops said she had made the decision to leave Lebanon early that morning, as Israeli bombers returned to strike her area of Baalbeck. Her fiance was still in Beirut. "I just couldn't handle it anymore. I had to get out." She left behind nearly all her possessions, but managed bring along her wedding dress. "Sometime, we will have the wedding," she said firmly. "If we're both still alive...