What’s being dug up at Saifi Gardens?
There appears to be a lot of interesting ruins being dug up at the new Safi Gardens development.…
That time I got threatened by a government official
This column was originally published in this month’s issue of Bold Magazine. Detained And RestrainedREPORTING IN LEBANON CAN…
It could be nothing…
A friend recently sent me a picture of a major construction site going up in Hamra. It’s probably…
Roman wall removed from Beirut Hippodrome site
It survived some 2,000 years of wars and conquest, but the wall above is now gone. Archeologists believe…
Developer to resume dismantling of Hippodrome
A work cessation order at Beirut’s Roman Hippodrome site has been overruled and the dismantlement of ruins belonging…
Al Jadeed picks up hippodrome story
Leading Lebanese TV station Al Jadeed has just published a piece following up on my article in the…
Plans to dismantle Beirut hippodrome reach BBC front page
That’s a screen shot from BBC’s news site today and you’ll see my latest piece as the second…
Beirut’s lost Roman hippodrome unearthed, to be dismantled
“There are four known Roman hippodromes in the Middle East,” a veteran archeologist recently told me. “In Beirut,…
Beirut Report on France 24
I did this interview last week during the height of the media uproar over my assault by construction…
New ruins at Souk el Tayeb site
Looks like we could have another interesting archeological dig in central Beirut. These pictures were sent to me…