Lebanese yearn for a city that actually works

Tom Coghlan Beirut

Beirut is known to some as the Arab world’s version of Tel Aviv:

a carefree party city where the Middle East can pretend that its 
problems don’t exist. Now, at least according to one Lebanese 
newspaper last week, it is known as Trash Can Republic.

Far from sitting outside in cafés and striking a pose, Beirut’s increasingly disgruntled citizens are now walking down the street holding their noses. Lebanon is in the grip of a Great Stink.
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