Flavio Alagia
When during our car trip in Southern Lebanon my travel companions suggested a visit to the Mleeta Resistance Tourist Landmark, the monumental museum established to honour Hezbollah’s fight against the Israeli occupation, I knew it would have been a fascinating … Read More
It’s already 10 pm when my plane from Cairo arrives in Beirut. The modern airport of the Lebanese capital welcomes me with soft lights and classy stores. Nothing points to the dramatic war against the Israeli invasion which only ended … Read More
In order to understand Lebanon‘s complex society we need to dig into its history. And there are few stories in Lebanon with more ancient roots than the ones beginning in Byblos. Byblos has become one of the country’s top tourist … Read More
The first time I attended a goa trance festival I was in Switzerland. During the party I saw something you rarely see on a rave: the people kindly smiled to anyone and they all seemed seriously busy making sure everyone … Read More
Cairo is like a beautiful, and very capricious, woman. You can’t tame her, every day is a frantic mess of sufferings and surprises, but you just can’t help but love her. Still, after a while in Egypt’s capital city every … Read More
We still have to leave and we are already late. The day started with a Matrix-style awakining, the bottles of wine Vadim brought the night before left on the table. The bottles, not the wine. Shall we leave? Shall we … Read More
In 2010 in Tunisia started the protest wave which became known as the Jasmine Revolution. The following year Ben Ali – who was in power since 23 years – was overthrown and the first free elections in the country’s history … Read More
It’s a quarter past five in the afternoon and the train isn’t here yet. From the loudspeakers of Casa Voyageurs train station there come updates about the delay first in Arabic and then in French. The result will be 47 … Read More
When travelling on the tramway in Morocco I always got the felling of entering a different world. Inaugurated one year ago, it is the public service’s pride. At least in the two towns where it has been set: Rabat, Morocco’s … Read More