MetaFilter posts tagged with beirut

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on the Beach.

chunking express — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:04:47 -0800

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on a Beach. I thought it was kind of sweet and compelling. Her other videos are interesting enough.

Hitchens hates the Beirut nazis.

Anything — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:05:38 -0800

In other news: prominent Iraq war supporter and atheist writer Christopher Hitchens caught in street brawl with Syrian nazis in Beirut, Lebanon, after defacing the group's poster with "No, no, Fuck You". The assault occurred on the eve of a lecture held by Mr. Hitchens at the American University of Beirut, on the subject of "Who are the revolutionaries in today's Middle East".

Beirut Music Videos

Corduroy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:15:43 -0800

The band Beirut released the Flying Club Cup on October 9th, and La Blogothèque has filmed unique, one take, on the spot, mostly public 'music videos' of each track. 1- Nantes 2- Sunday Smile 3- Guyamas Sonora 4- La Banlieue 5- Cliquot 6- The Penalty 7- La Fete 8- In the Mausoleum 9- Un Dernier Verre 10- Cherbourg 11- St. Apollonia 12- The Flying Club Cup (Some of the writing below the belows the videos is pretty effusive, but the music and videos are still impressive.) Here are a couple more traditional Beirut music videos. And here is one I like of Josè González by the same people.

All the news that's fit to print

psmealey — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:30:27 -0800

Censored: The scariest news may be the stuff you haven’t seen yet. David Phinney thought he’d struck journalistic gold. The veteran reporter, who has done freelance work for PBS, ABC, The New York Times, and other news companies, learned from a disgusted American contractor that the Kuwaiti company hired to build the U.S. embassy in Iraq was using forced laborers trafficked in from Asia. “I tried to sell it to every major news organization that I could think of,” said Phinney. “They all thought that it was fascinating, but they didn’t want to pay for my story, they just wanted to rip off my sources.” Al Jazeera was the only major news outlet to take an interest in Phinney’s work. For the past 31 years, Project Censored [Previously] has selected what the research group believes to be the most important news stories that flew under the national radar each year — either under-reported or completely ignored by the mainstream media. Phinney’s article about the use of slave labor to build an American embassy, shocking as it may be, ranked fifth on the list of 25. The No. 1 story: hidden language in the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that does away with habeas corpus rights, one of the most elemental principles of our legal system, for anyone labeled an “enemy of the state,” — including, potentially, U.S. citizens.

beirut dispatch

kliuless — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:19:52 -0800

Murder Update: "Syria's Lebanese allies are trying to undermine the Hariri investigation from within, and are expected to escalate their efforts very soon, maybe even this week."

Beirut: Before and After

poweredbybeard — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:28:00 -0800

Beirut: Before and After

“Now I can say I have been in a real war zone,” he said, and gave a mock swagger.

jne1813 — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:10:03 -0800

Beirut Postcard

Tony Bourdain gets out

lackutrol — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:33:05 -0800

Anthony Bourdain, chef, writer, and TV traveler, writes about his experience in Beirut and his escape to the USS Nashville. Via. Previously.

The Voyage of Terry Waite's Clogs

jontyjago — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 03:47:24 -0800

The Voyage of Terry Waite's Clogs I first saw this a couple of days ago and the more I think about the logistics and reasoning behind this the stranger it becomes. I like the fact this probably wouldn't happen in any other country than England, but all the same you do have to wonder why it happened. For those non-Brits Terry Waite was the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy to Beirut in the 80s and was held hostage for 5 years by a militant islamic group.

semmi — Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:13:14 -0800

American brands PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Western Union are advertising on Hezbollah television. The Iranian-backed and funded group has been implicated in the attacks against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans in 1982.

crasspastor — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:41:18 -0800

Former Beiruit hostage Tom Sutherland is now more rich that Donald and his son combined (probably). . . $53m comes from the US tax payers. The other $300m he was awarded to be sifted out Iran somehow. Granted, he and "cell-mate" Terry Anderson spent 70 months chained, gagged and probably unbathed, but can't they honestly say now, this was the best thing that could ever have happened to them? "We're not going to build any new houses or move away from Fort Collins . . .. We'll just be the same guys." Sutherland pooh-poohed the high falutin' rumors. What'd they expect teaching school in a den of lions?