Post 6/365
Beirut… How do I start?
Beirut’s name is derived from the Canaanite name of Beʾerōt (Wells), referring to the underground water source that is still tapped by its inhabitants (note the modern irony). It is a city of baffling contradictions blending the cosmopolitan with the provincial.
Beirut is a collage of high-rise buildings, modern buildings, walk-up apartments, traditional four-story houses, beautiful dilapidated 2 story houses with red roofs, and run down buildings.
Post 5/365
Lebanon is literally beautiful inside out. We have beautiful nature on the surface of the land and inside it.
Jeita is the longest cave in the Middle East. It has the longest stalactite in the world and it’s considered the pride of Lebanon.
It is the story behind it that I love though . Behind this cathedral like vaults with majestic curtains falling from its walls. Jeita, in case you didn’t know, provides fresh drinking water to 1.5 million inhabitants! And yet it stands there in profound silence.
Post 4/365
Lebanon, just by pure geography, makes the Mediterranean sea part of our daily lives. It’s length almost three times its width with a 225km of coastline.
Now that’s nice but that’s all information. What I love about this fact is that no matter how far away I am, I am only a 2 hours drive to the sea. And I do love my sea. Just like Pablo Neruda said “I need the sea because it teaches me”.
I find my peace and my serenity and I realise that I am literally just a drop of water every time I look at its vastness. We have 225 km of pure warm blue beauty. I wish we would take better care of it.
Post 3/365
Lebanon has 4 of the worlds oldest cities, dating as far back as 5000BC:
Tyre: 2750 BC
Beirut: 3000 BC
Sidon: 4000 BC
Byblos: 5000 BC
And as Martin Luther King once said “we are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Post 2/365
I think everyone who has children can identify with that. It is the greatest gift you can give a childhood to grow up around their grandparents. Grandparents just sprinkle stardust over the lives of our little children.
So for me, my children growing up surrounded by the unconditional love of both their grandparents, is priceless.
My son will do absolutely anything I ask him to, if I promise him that he can sleep at his grandparents over the week end.
That’s why I #livelovelebanon and I will #fighton
Post 1/365
Good morning everyone… I start today. Please feel free to add your pictures if you like.
I decided to post pictures from my travels in Lebanon that I had already posted on my Instagram account.
I love Lebanon because we have 330 days of blue skies.
I will repeat that, 330 days of blue skies.
We all take it for granted because it’s there and it never changes but if you’ve lived in Europe you’d realise how utterly amazing that is.
I think it’s one of the reasons why we Lebanese are always positive, how can we not be? At the end of the day the sun will always shine tomorrow
I #livelovelebanon and I will #fighton
365 Days of Lebanon 