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Beirut’s Object Lesson of Weaponized Incompetence

August 6, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 19 Comments

An old house in Beirut's Gemmayze district, half a mile from the port and the blast site. (© Myrna Boulos Jacquin for FlaglerLive)

The blast that leveled huge swaths of Beirut Tuesday was the result of years of criminal negligence and serves as an object lesson in government incompetence and indifference to public safety–not just in Lebanon.

In My Father’s Court: Baalbek

July 19, 2016 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

Jupiter's six remaining columns. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

The Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon were among my father’s favorite haunts. He was a professional photographer. Lebanon was his studio. We discovered the country, and ourselves, through his eyes.

Monique Haddad Branon
Beirut 1938 – Palm Coast 2013

November 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

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Monique Haddad-Branon, née Safa, who died peacefully on the evening of Sunday 17 November 2013 in Palm Coast, had been a fixture in Lebanon’s media of the 1960s, 70s and 80s as a television and radio and newspaper reporter and columnist before evolving into a novelist and poet in her American years.

From Beirut to 9/11:
When Barbarism Follows Barbarism

September 11, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

Revulsion over the losses in New York and Washington aside, the attack triggered a succession of fears: That the barbarism I so gladly left behind 23 years ago is here.

From Beirut to Bulldog Drive: Palm Coast’s Uncivil War Over Gus Ajram’s Property Rights

September 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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From escaping Lebanon’s civil war to building automotive businesses in New York and Edgewater, Gus Ajram never expected his biggest battle to be over his property rights in Palm Coast.

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