Word: beirutization
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...capturing of two Israeli soldiers on July 12, which prompted the Israeli military response that has killed some 1,000 Lebanese and left 1 million displaced. "After the guns fall silent, the moment of truth will come," says Hilal Khashan, a political-science professor at the American University of Beirut. "People will hold Hizballah accountable for what happened...
...Tehran, and Nasrallah is a confidant of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom he visited on a weekly basis prior to the war. Lebanese sources speaking to TIME give credence to Israeli reports that the Hizballah leader has spent part of the war holed up in the Iranian embassy in Beirut--which may have secret tunnels leading to Nasrallah's now destroyed headquarters. But within Lebanon, his coziness with foreign patrons is a liability. A senior Lebanese official tells TIME that as soon as the fighting stops, Lebanese political parties plan to confront Nasrallah with demands that Hizballah hand over...
...relatively easy for Hussein Abbas to find his belongings from what used to be the 10-story apartment building where he lived in Haret Hriek in South Beirut. A bomb had struck his building around the fourth floor, shearing the upper half clean off. Since he lived on the top floor, what remained of his home was on top of the rubble, "That's my yellow pot, and that heap used to be my stove," said the retired shopkeeper, who is now living in a school building in East Beirut. On this the first day of the cease-fire between...
...Like Abbas, thousands of the estimated one million Lebanese displaced by the war streamed back to their homes today, despite government warnings about unexploded bombs - and fears that the cease-fire might not hold. In Beirut, that meant a sudden mass migration by refugees who had been living temporarily in the Christian eastern side of the city - which had been largely spared by the Israelis - to the heavily Shia Muslim southern suburbs, which had borne the brunt of the Israeli attack...
When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph of smoke rising over Beirut, side by side with the unaltered version of the same scene, the first thing I thought was: which is supposed to be the scary one? If I saw either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps...